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<p class="event1texttitle"><font
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Iran and the Nuclear Issue</font></p>
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">March
11, 2013 4:30p–6:00p</font></p>
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<p>ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: <br>
Barbara Slavin is a senior fellow at the
Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and
Washington correspondent for
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href="http://Al-Monitor.com/">Al-Monitor.com</a>,
a new website devoted to news from and about the
Middle East. The author of a 2007 book, Bitter
Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the
Twisted Path to Confrontation, she is a regular
commentator on U.S. foreign policy and Iran on
NPR, PBS and C-SPAN. A career journalist, Slavin
previously served as assistant managing editor
for world and national security of The
Washington Times, senior diplomatic reporter for
USA TODAY, Cairo correspondent for The Economist
and as an editor at The New York Times Week in
Review. <br>
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Jim Walsh is an expert in international security
and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's Security Studies
Program (SSP). Dr. Walsh's research and writings
focus on international security, and in
particular, topics involving nuclear weapons and
terrorism. Dr. Walsh has testified before the
United States Senate on the issue of nuclear
terrorism and on Iran's nuclear program. He is
one of a handful of Americans who has traveled
to both Iran and North Korea for talks with
officials about nuclear issues. The British
newspaper, The Independent, named Dr. Walsh and
his co-authors as having offered one of the 10
best and original ideas of 2008.
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<p>Barbara Slavin, Jim Walsh</p>
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<p>E25-111 </p>
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<p>Center for International Studies & MIT
Security Studies Program</p>
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<p>Open to the public</p>
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<p class="event1texttitle"><font
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Forum: The General's Son: Journey of an
Israeli in Palestine</font></p>
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<p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">March
13, 2013 4:30p–6:00p</font></p>
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<p>Book Talk with Miko Peled </p>
<p>About the author: <br>
Miko Peled is an Israeli peace activist. His
father Mattityahu Peled was was a well-known
Israeli public figure who was at various
periods of his life a professional military
man who reached the rank of Aluf (Major
General) in the IDF and was a member of the
General Staff during the Six-Day War of 1967;
a notable scholar who headed the Arabic
Language and Literature Department of Tel Aviv
University; a radical peace activist and a
leading proponent of Israeli dialogue with the
PLO and of complete withdrawal from the
Occupied Territories in whose conquest he
personally had a major role; and a member of
the Knesset who often expressed controversial
views considered "extreme left" in Israeli
terms, yet was treated with considerable
respect by staunch political people.
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Books will be signed and sold at the event. <br>
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<p>Miko Peled</p>
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<p>E15-070 Bartos Theater</p>
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<p>Open to the public<br>
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Forum: Sex and the Citadel: Intimate
Life in a Changing Arab World</font></p>
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size="4">March 14, 2013 4:30p–6:00p</font></p>
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<p>Book Talk with Shereen El Feki <br>
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SHEREEN EL FEKI is a writer,
broadcaster, and academic who started
her professional life in medical
science before going on to become an
award-winning journalist for The
Economist and a presenter at Al
Jazeera English. She is former
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vice-chair of the UN's Global
Commission on HIV and Law, and a TED
Global Fellow. She divides her time
between London and Cairo.
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Her newly released book, Sex and the
Citadel, is a fascinating,
groundbreaking look at changing sexual
attitudes and behaviour in the Arab
world, and their part in 2011's
popular revolts.
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Books will be signed and sold at the
event. <br>
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<p>Shereen El Feki</p>
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<p>E51-Wong Auditorium </p>
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