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Women's Empowerment and Earned Income: Experimental Evidence from Jordan

Seminar Open to the Public

Thu. Feb. 13, 2020 12:00pm - 01:30pm

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, manager Maher Howeidi inspects production at a garment factory in the village of Kitteh in northern Jordan where dozens of Jordanian women sew jeans for the U.S. market.

Gender Quota Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: Why Bother?

Seminar Open to the Public

Fri. Apr. 12, 2019 12:00pm - 01:30pm

Women walk past an election campaign poster for candidate Mai Nayef al-Rahal of the Iraq coalition at Kahramana Square in Baghdad, Iraq,Tuesday April 1, 2014.

Gun at a Knife Fight: Regional Intervention in Civil Wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), 1957-2017

Seminar Open to the Public

Fri. Mar. 29, 2019 12:00pm - 01:30pm

A man shows fragments of a bomb from the rubble of houses destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

Crises of Citizenship in the Arab World Today

Seminar Open to the Public

Fri. Mar. 8, 2019 12:00pm - 01:30pm

Jordanian youths chanting slogans carry a large Jordanian flag at an anti-government demonstration in Amman, Jordan Friday, July 29, 2011.

Open Borders, Local Closures: The Politics of Local Responses to Refugee Crises

Seminar Open to the Public

Fri. Mar. 1, 2019 12:00pm - 01:30pm

Protesters march against curfews imposed on Syrian refugees in Beirut during July 2016.

Women and the Holy City: Gender and Contested Sacred Space in Jerusalem

Seminar Open to the Public

Thu. Feb. 21, 2019 04:15pm - 05:30pm

A view of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, some of the holiest sites for for Jews and Muslims, is seen in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.

Benefitting from Victimhood: Why Mainstream Voters Elect Fringe Politicians

Seminar Open to the Public

Thu. Feb. 14, 2019 12:00pm - 01:30pm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and his Tunisian counterpart Hamadi Jebali shake hands as they pose for cameras before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.

Making and Breaking Local Order: Colonizers, Autocrats, and Land Redistribution in the Modern Middle East (Rescheduled)

Seminar Open to the Public

Thu. Apr. 26, 2018 04:15pm - 05:30pm

An Ottoman era bridge, once used for the Hijaz railway across the Yarmouk River on the border of Southern Syria and Northern Jordan, lies in disrepair since it was bombed by British forces in 1946.