Summer 2013 Courses
Fall 2013 Courses
Courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish are now offered by The Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures under the AMESALL code of 013 but still count towards the MES major/minor.
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This talk examines the use of proxies by the US in the War on Terror and traces their historical roots. In the US case, extraordinary rendition had been used as early as the 1970s in the US War on Drugs in Latin America, but a smooth policy elision allowed the transfer of such know-how to the era of War on Terror. Using narratives of incarceration of former prisoners the talkshows how invisibility was guaranteed through states privilege doctrine, the delegation of torture to compliant clients, and carefulstructures of coercion that veil the culprits.
"Examining three different eco-habitats (oasis, maritime coast, and highland terraces) in three different countries (Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen) , this lecture will examine the question of how countries are governing their populations through the development of their water resources and what this means for unerstanding sovereignty, expert knowledge and the neo-liberal order."
Lucy Stone Hall, Rooms B316