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SUMMARY:Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
DESCRIPTION:MASSACHUSETTS\n\nThe Center for Middle Eastern Studies\n\n\nis 
 pleased to present\nJoseph Sassoon\nVisiting Professor\, Georgetown Univer
 sity\n\nJoseph Sassoon is currently a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Uni
 versity. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College\, O
 xford. During this academic year\, 2014-2015\, he was chosen as a Fellow a
 t the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington\, DC.
  In 2013\, his book on Iraq and the Ba‘th Party won the prestigious Brit
 ish-Kuwait Prize for the best book on the Middle East. Born in Baghdad\, S
 assoon completed his Ph.D at St Antony’s College\, Oxford. He has publis
 hed extensively on Iraq and its economy and on the Middle East. His public
 ations include: Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside An Authoritarian 
 Regime (Cambridge University Press\, 2012). The Iraqi Refugees: The New Cr
 isis in the Middle East (London\, I.B. Tauris\, 2009)\; paperback edition 
 with a new preface\, December 2010\, and Arabic translation by Arab Instit
 ute for Research and Publishing (Beirut and Amman\, 2011).Economic Policy 
 in Iraq\, 1932–1950 (London\, Frank Cass &amp\; Co\, 1987). “Iraq’s 
 Economy and Its Brain Drain after the 2003 Invasion\,” Mokhtar Lamani an
 d Bessma Momani (eds.) in From Desolation to Reconstruction: Iraq’s Trou
 bled Journey (Waterloo ON\, Wilfrid Laurier University Press\, 2010)\; “
 The Iraqi Ba‘th Party Preparatory School and the “Cultural” Courses 
 of the Branches\,” Middle Eastern Studies\, vol. 50\, no.1\, 2014\, pp. 
 27-42\; “The East German Ministry of State Security and Iraq\, 1968-1989
 \,” Journal of Cold War Studies (expected March 2014)\; “State Securit
 y\, Information and Repression: A Comparison of Communist Bulgaria and Ba
 ‘thist Iraq\,” in collaboration with Martin Dimitrov\, Journal of Cold
  War Studies (expected June 2014).\nThis event is open to the public\; no 
 registration required.\nThis event is off the record. The use of recording
  devices is strictly prohibited.\n\n\n\n\nDate:\nApril 7\, 2015 - 4:00pm -
  6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\nCMES\, Room 102\, Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, 
 MA 01238\n\n\n
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