BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:307@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150212T133000 DTSTAMP:20150211T080525Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/shelia-carapico-arab-activism/ SUMMARY:Shelia Carapico: Arab Activism DESCRIPTION:CALIFORNIA \n\nStanford University\n\nEuropean and US-based sc holars and practitioners have debated the purposes and sometimes the (limi ted) macro-effects of programs designed to promote transitions from author itarianism to democracy in Middle East countries. Yet this discussion ofte n lacks analysis of on-the-ground experiences or ignores the cumulative wi sdom of local counterparts and intermediaries. This seminar is based on Ca rapico’s ground-breaking study Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democrac y Promotion\, Justice\, and Representation (Cambridge University Press\, 2 013) which explores two decades’ worth of projects sponsored by American \, European\, and other transnational agencies in four key sub-fields: the rule of law\, electoral design and monitoring\, female empowerment\, and civil society. Specifically in the seminar Carapico will discuss controver sies and contradictions surrounding projects in Egypt\, Palestine\, and Ir aq (the three main cases) and Jordan\, Morocco\, Yemen\, Algeria\, Tunisia \, and Lebanon (where democracy brokers also work) to help explain why so many feminists and other advocates for justice\, free elections\, and civi c agency concluded that foreign funding is inherently political and parado xical.\n\nAbout the speaker: \n\nSheila Carapico\, Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Richmond\, has bee n exploring Arab activism since studying in Cairo and traveling around the region in 1971/72. She lived in Sana’a from 1977 through 1980\, mainly researching community development initiatives and foreign aid intervention s. Subsequently she worked as a consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development\, the Netherlands Embassy\, Human Rights Watch\, and several other agencies in Yemen\, Egypt\, and Lebanon. She was a Fulbr ight research scholar and visiting fellow at the Sana’a University Women ’s Studies and Social Research Center for two years during the ‘democr atic opening’ in Yemen in the early 1990s. She served as Visiting Chairp erson in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo for all of 2010 and the ‘Arab spring’ semester of 2011\, and re turned to AUC as a visiting faculty member in the spring of 2013. In addit ion to Political Aid she is the author of Civil Society in Yemen: A Polit ical Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambridge University Press\, 1 998) and other works on the comparative and international politics of the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab world. She is a contributing editor of Midd le East Report.\n\n[Co-sponsored by CDDRL's Program on Arab Reform and Dem ocracy]\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/02/download.jpeg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture LOCATION:Encina Hall\, 616 Serra St \, Stanford\, CA\, United States GEO:37.4273156;-122.16468179999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=616 Serra St \, Stanford\, CA\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Encina Hall:geo:37.4273156,- 122.16468179999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR