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    02/03/07 11:18:48

2006 - 2007 Past Events


"How the Internet is Used to Advance Jihad"

Nadav Samin

Middle East Analyst

United States Government

Sunday, January 21 2007

2:00pm -3:30pm, Bldg. AC-I, Room 194 on Biscayne Bay Campus  

Mr. Samin is a Middle East Analyst and Arabic linguist for the United States Government. He is also an adjunct professor of political science at Hunter College, New York City, where he teaches a course on the jihadist movement. He has published articles and book reviews on Middle East issues in the Wall Street Journal and Arab Studies Journal, and regularly authors analytical reports for the federal government and local law enforcement agencies. He is a fluent Arabic speaker who has lived in Egypt and Morocco, and has traveled extensively throughout the Arab and Muslim world.

 

 

Jonathan Schanzer

The Complex Network of the Terror Money Trail

Sunday, December 3 2006

3:00pm, Bldg. AC-I, Room 194 on Biscayne Bay Campus  

Jonathan Schanzer is a financial analyst at the United States Department of Treasury (DoT) Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Before his post at the DoT, Mr. Schanzer served as a Research Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he authored the book "Al-Qaeda's Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror," and the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. (A signed copy of the book will be available for purchase at a discount price after Mr. Schanzer's lecture).

Mr. Schanzer has published numerous scholarly journal articles, national newspaper editorials and political magazine features. He has appeared with frequency on American television channels, such as Fox News and CNN, as well as Arab television channels, such as al-Jazeera. Mr.

Schanzer has traveled widely in Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories. He speaks Arabic and Hebrew.

 

 


 

Senator Bob Graham

America's Intelligence Agencies, Iraq, and the War on Terror

Saturday, November 18 2006

3:00pm, Mary Anne Wolfe  Theatre on Biscayne Bay Campus  

Graham was a United States Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005 and the governor of that state from 1979 to 1987. While in the Senate, he served on the Select Senate Committee of Intelligence from 1993 to 2003 and as the Committee's chairman in 2001 and 2002. Graham recently finished serving a one-year term as an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is now concentrating his efforts on establishing the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida.

 

 


 

Edwin Black

The Explosion of Petropolitics in the Middle East

September 10, 2006

2-3:30pm, Biscayne Bay Campus, Bldg. AC-1, Room 194  

 http://www.edwinblack.com/

Award-winning and New York Times International Bestselling Author

 


 

2005 - 2006 Past Events

  • March 12th 2006- Janine Zacharia

    One Reporters Views on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

     

  • February 26th 2006- Haim Malka 

    http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_experts/task,view/type,34/id,101/

    The Role of Islamic Parties in Middle East and North African Democratization

    Fellow, Middle East Program Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS

    On Feb 26th at FIU BBC Building AC-I Room 194 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.

    For Questions about this event please contact Jan Solomon

 

  • January 29th 2006- Dr. Soner Cagaptay

    http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=3

    Turkey's EU Path: How long is the journey?

    Director, Turkish Research  Program Tel: 202-452-0650 · Fax: 202-223-5364

    Send Soner Cagaptay a message

    Visited BBC on Jan 29th 2006

    Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Turkish Research Program. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals such as Middle East Quarterly, Middle Eastern Studies, and Nations and Nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay frequently writes commentary in major international print media including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Guardian, Der Spiegel, and La Stampa. He also appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN-Turk, and al-Hurra.

     

  • December 4th 2005- Dr. Robert Rabil

    http://www.fau.edu/politicalscience/rabil.php

    Syria and the US: The war on terror in the Middle East

     

  • November 6th 2005 - Dr. Hadi Semati

    US Iran Relations: Accommodation or Confrontation

     

  • September 28th 2005 -Dr Asher Susser

    http://www.dayan.org/frameres.htm

    The Gaza Disengagement: It is about war or peace?

 

 

 

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