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SUMMARY:Making Crisis\, Sovereignty\, and the Environment in Iraq and Kuwait
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our first Pardee Research Seminar of the fall semester\, featuring Arbella Bet-Shlimon.\n\n\nArbella Bet-Shlimon\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington\, will be presenting on research that considers how imperialism\, anticolonialism\, and the contradictions of sovereignty in twentieth-century Iraq and Kuwait are reflected in environmental concerns. She illustrates how a state of crisis between the two countries historically occurred at the nexus of resource extraction and consciousness of climate anomalies (now understood as climate change). Viewing this issue through the problem of freshwater access helps us understand the different\, and conflicting\, ways that formerly colonized people articulate their aspirations for liberation amid imperial intervention.
URL:https://politicaljar.com/event/making-crisis-sovereignty-and-the-environment-in-iraq-and-kuwait/
LOCATION:121 Bay State Rd\, 121 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Halabja Massacre: Remembering\, Reflecting and Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:Explore the effect on Kurdish and Iraqi life of the 1988 Halabja Massacre from survivor Dr. Yerevan Saeed.\n\n\nAbout the Lecture: \nDr. Saeed will speak about the Halabja Massacre that occurred on March 16\, 1988—a chemical weapons attack under the direction of Ali Hassan al-Majid (“Chemical Ali”)\, a cousin of Saddam Hussein. The attack claimed between 7\,000 and 10\,000 civilian lives. Dr. Saeed will discuss the lasting impact on Kurdish and Iraqi history\, its role in the discussion of genocide\, and his own experience as a survivor of the attack. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nYerevan Saeed is the Barzani Scholar in Residence and the Director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace at American University’s School of International Service and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington He is a TEDx speaker and former lecturer at the University of Kurdistan Hewler. Saeed previously was a visiting scholar and research associate at AGSIW. Saeed is a political analyst who researches and writes on security\, political\, and energy issues in the Middle East\, focusing on Iraq\, Turkey\, Iran\, the Gulf\, and the Levant. He has served as White House correspondent for the Kurdish Rudaw TV\, and his work has been published in the Washington Institute’s Fikra Forum\, the Diplomatic Courier\, The New York Times\, the London-based Majalla magazine\, Rudaw\, Global Politician\, and several Kurdish newspapers. In addition\, he has been interviewed by Voice of America\, NPR\, CNN\, Voice of Russia\, and Kurdish television programs and newspapers. From 2009-13\, Saeed worked with Stratfor; additionally\, he worked for several media outlets\, including The New York Times\, NPR\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Boston Globe\, BBC\, and The Guardian\, as a journalist and translator in Iraq from 2003-07. Saeed holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, with a focus on Middle East studies and international negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his PhD from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He speaks Kurdish and Arabic and has a command of Farsi.
URL:https://politicaljar.com/event/the-halabja-massacre-remembering-reflecting-and-rebuilding/
LOCATION:The Institute of World Politics\, 1521 16th Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20036\, United States
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