[act-ma] 2/08 & 10: Stephen Kinzer

[Charlie Welch]

Two events with Sephen Kinzer  (Tuesday event at MIT below)

This Sunday at 11am:


      “The Dulles Brothers and Their Secret World War"
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      with Stephen Kinzer

During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely 
powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign 
adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles 
was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of 
the Central Intelligence Agency. Stephen Kinzer places their 
extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and 
history. He uses the story of the Dulles brothers to illuminate and 
explain the modern history of the United States and the world.

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered 
more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have 
led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign 
policy storytelling.” He spent more than 20 years working for the New 
York Times, posted in Central America, Berlin, and Istanbul. He writes a 
column for The Boston Globe and is a Visiting Fellow at the Watson 
Institute for International Studies at Brown University.


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Please join us for the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar:

*"Iran and the United States: Eternal Enemies or Natural Partners?
"*
Speaker: *Stephen Kinzer*, Journalist in Residence, Brown University; 
Formerly of the New York Times

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:30–6:30pm
70 Memorial Drive, Building E51 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51>, Room 376
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

The lecture is free and open to the public.

*About the Speaker:*
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered 
more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have 
led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign 
policy storytelling."
Kinzer’s newest book, /The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, 
and Their Secret World War/, has been widely praised. Reviewers have 
called it sparkling, riveting, gripping, bracing, and disturbing. The 
Wall Street Journal called it a “fluently written, ingeniously 
researched, thrillerish work of popular history.”

Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of 
it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the 
center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.

 From 1983 to 1989, Kinzer was the Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, 
where he covered war and upheaval in Central America. For the first half 
of the 1990s he was the Times bureau chief in Berlin. From there he 
covered the emergence of post-Communist Europe, including wars in the 
former Yugoslavia.

In 1996 Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened New York Times bureau 
in Istanbul, Turkey. He spent four years there, traveling widely in 
Turkey and in the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. After 
completing this assignment, Kinzer published/ Crescent and Star: Turkey 
Between Two Worlds./

In 2006 Kinzer published /Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change 
from Hawaii to Iraq/.  It recounts the 14 times the United States has 
overthrown foreign governments.

Kinzer has made several trips to Iran, and is the author of /All the 
Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror/. It 
tells how the CIA overthrew Iran's nationalist government in 1953. In 
2010 Kinzer published /Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future/, 
which Huffington Post called “a bold exercise in reimagining the 
United States’ big links in the Middle East.”

He wrote about Africa in his book /A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth 
and the Man Who Dreamed It/.

Kinzer has taught political science, journalism and international 
relations at Northwestern and Boston University. He is now a Visiting 
Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown 
University, where he teaches international relations.

He contributes articles to periodicals including /The New York Review of 
Books/, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe.

The University of Scranton awarded Kinzer an honorary doctorate in 
2010. “Where there has been turmoil in the world and history has 
shifted, Stephen Kinzer has been there,” the citation said. 
  “Neither bullets, bombs nor beating could dull his sharp 
determination to bring injustice and strife to light.”
*About the Seminar Series:*
The Bustani Middle East Seminar is organized under the auspices of the 
MIT Center for International Studies, which conducts research on 
contemporary international issues and provides and opportunity for 
faculty and students to share perspectives and exchange views. Each year 
the Bustani Seminar invites scholars, journalists, consultants, and 
other experts from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States to MIT 
to present recent research findings on contemporary politics, society 
and culture, and economic and technological development in the Middle East.


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