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A lecture by Mark Farha

A lecture by Mark Farha, Dept. of Government, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

Presented by the Center for Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, May 04, 2015
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA

Mark Farha obtained his PhD from Harvard in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Since 2008, he has served as an Assistant Professor of Government at the School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. At Georgetown, he teaches courses on the history and politics of the modern Middle East. His publications include: “Demographic Dilemmas” in Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict and Crisis, ed. Barry Rubin, (NY, 2009); “From Beirut Spring to Regional Winter?” in Breaking the Cycle: Civil Wars in Lebanon (London, 2007), “Historical Legacy and Political Implications of State and Sectarian Schools in Lebanon” in Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion, ed. by Maha Shuayb, (London, 2012); “Global Gradations of Secularism”, Comparative Sociology. 11:3 (2012). “Secularism in a Sectarian Society: The divisive drafting of the Lebanese Constitution of 1926” in Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy, ed. Bali and Lerner, Cambridge, forthcoming.
Dr. Farha is editing a book manuscript entitled “Secularism under Siege in Lebanon: Global and Regional Dimensions of a Malaise”. He is the co-recipient of a major research grant by the Qatar National Research Fund on “Emerging Sectarian Fault-lines and Regional Security in the Arab Revolution.”

Cost: free and open to the public