SSRC Work and Experts Related to

Middle East & North Africa

Features and Press Releases

June 23rd 2009
Social scientists comment on Iran's post-election conflict
Tom Asher, SSRC's program officer for Islam and Muslim in World Contexts, has invited several of the program's grantees and their associates to comment on the post-electoral situation in Iran.
May 27th 2009
Visit photojournalist Kael Alford's audio slideshow, "Windows on Iraq," created for an SSRC-funded program
After engaging in a series of SSRC-funded conversations at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, photojournalist Kael Alford created an audio slide show of some of the photos she took during the U.S.-led invasion of that country. Alford's work is one of several resources the Center has made available to journalists and the wider public.
February 6th 2009
Gilles Kepel on What Obama's Priorities Should Be for the Middle East
In conversation with Mary-Lea Cox, French scholar and Middle East expert Gilles Kepel paints the big picture of the challenges President Obama faces in the Middle East.
January 11th 2009
In Gaza, No End in Sight
The Israeli political sociologist talks about Israel's "unilateral ceasefire" in Gaza, how the conflict there typifies modern warfare, and how skewed he finds American media coverage.
August 20th 2007
SSRC Launches New Inter-Asian Initiative
In today's interconnected world, the notion of the Far East seems like a relic of earlier, era, when countries were designated near, or far, or in the middle, in relation to the vantage point of the supreme power of Europe. But for Seteney Shami, a program director at the SSRC, east and west are not the only concepts that have lost their relevance. The concept of Asia itself is changing.
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Programs and Projects

Academia in the Public Sphere Grants Program
Working to ensure that academic knowledge on Islam and Muslim societies informs public policy
Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)
Mobilizing necessary knowledge to support UN capacity for conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding
Inter-Asia Program
Supporting research collaborations within and across the regions of Asia
Internationalization and Inter-Disciplinarity: An Evaluation of Middle East Study Centers
Middle East and North Africa Program
Generating new social science perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa
Producing Knowledge on World Regions
University Governance and Autonomy in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education in the Arab World