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 iddle-east-isis-is-about-the-arab-past-not-the-future/
SUMMARY:Michael Van Dusen Lecture on the Middle East: ISIS is About the Ara
 b Past\, Not the Future
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nWASHINGTON DC\nThe Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wil
 son Center presents the second\nMichael Van Dusen Lecture on the Middle Ea
 st: ISIS is About the Arab Past\, Not the Future\nwith\nRami Khouri\nForm
 er Public Policy Scholar\, Woodrow Wilson Center\; Senior Public Policy Fe
 llow and former Director\, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and Int
 ernational Affairs\, American University of Beirut\; and syndicated column
 ist\, The Daily Star\nKhouri will analyze the many causes in the past two 
 generations that converged to give birth to ISIS\, noting that it reflects
  more the poor and often brutal quality of modern Arab statehood than any 
 mass religious movement. ISIS also was not a surprise\, in view of the fac
 t that all serious mass movements in the Arab world since the 1970s have r
 evolved around Islamist politics in one form or another. ISIS can be easil
 y defeated militarily\, but unless the underlying weaknesses and the poor 
 quality of Arab statehood are resolved we will probably see even more brut
 al movements emerge in the future.\n\n*Coffee will be served at 9:30 a.m.\
 nAbout the Speaker: Rami Khouri // Former Public Policy Scholar\, Direct
 or\, Islam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs\, A
 merican University of Beirut\, Lebanon\; Editor-at-large\, The Daily Star\
 n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\n\n6th Floor\, Woodrow Wilson Center\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:Wilson Center\, 6th floor\, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave.\, Washington\, 
 DC\, United States
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