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Video: Inside the Arab Awakening

| Sep. 20, 2011

September 19, Professor Nicholas Burns led a conversation in the John F. Kennedy Forum with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, UAE-based columnist; Rami George Khouri, Director, Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut; Dr. Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut; and Diana Buttu, Joint Fellow with the Middle East Initiative and Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program.

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Media coverage:

"Panel lauds nature of Arab Uprisings." Harvard Crimson, Tuesday, September 20, 2011

"Arab Uprisings Shift to Political Struggles." Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Wednesday, September 20, 2011

For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Janka, Noelle. “Video: Inside the Arab Awakening.” , September 20, 2011.

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