The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Café with Bassam Haddad

The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Café with Bassam Haddad

Date and Time

Feb 9, 2025 9:00 am

Location

14th & V

2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009

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Today’s featured speaker is Bassam Haddad, a renowned expert on the Middle East, who will discuss the political and social landscape of Syria.

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed three-part documentary series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam served on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio-Visual Podcast. He is also the is the Executive Editor of the Knowledge Production Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). 

He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press)

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Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe is a weekly informal interactive learning community featuring authors, activists, artists, film makers, journalists and other change makers to help us make sense of the world around us. Free and open to all.

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