Below, find some of the podcast mini-series that Fares Center staff members and working groups have produced. We hope you enjoy listening!
Fares Center International Conference 2024
Panel 1: Power Vacuums and Changing Regional Dynamics
Nancy Okail, Center for International Policy
Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Ismail Numan Telci, Sakarya University
Chaired by Monica Toft, The Fletcher School
Keynote: Lisa Anderson on “The Middle East and the United States: Entangled Systems”
Chaired by Nadim Rouhana, Director of the Fares Center
Panel 2: Cultural Encounters as Sites for Defining New Directions in Arab-American Relations
Sopanit Angushinga, Georgetown University
Nora Lessersohn, University College London
Maha El Said, Cairo University
Mounira Soliman, Cairo University
Chaired by Malik Mufti, Tufts University
Panel 3: The U.S. and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Regional and Domestic Implications
Atalia Omer, Notre Dame University
Dana El Kurd, Arab Center Washington
Mark Tessler, University of Michigan
Chaired by Khaled Fahmy, Tufts University
Keynote Panel: The Middle East in the US Campus and Implications for Knowledge Production and Freedom of Speech
Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University
Peter Beinart, City University of New York
Chaired by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, The Fletcher School
Panel 4: The U.S. in the Middle East: Questions about Dealing with Islamism, Democracy, and Peacebuilding
Tamirace Fakhoury, The Fletcher School
Nathaniel George, University of London
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Radboud University
Ritika Lal, New York University
Chaired by Elisabeth Leake, The Fletcher School
Umbrellas in the Desert
Food & Conflict
Panel 1: The Art of Culinary Diplomacy | The Fletcher Approach
Sam Chapple-Sokol (F12), Culinary Diplomacy Expert (Twitter @culinarydiplo)
Moderators: Nadim Shehadi & Molly Haragan
Recording here.
Panel 2: Politics of Hunger | Starvation and Famine in Syria
Emma Beals, Award Winning Investigative Journalist
José Ciro Martinez, Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Moderator: Bridget Conley, Tufts University
Recording here.
Panel 3: Neither Bread Nor Freedom | What Drives Revolts?
Ellen Messer, Affiliated Faculty, The Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator: Dean Steven Block
Recording here.
Panel 4: Food, Peacebuilding, and Integration
Ihsan Karayazi, Chair of Kars Urban and Culture Research Association; Producer – Freelance Food Researcher
Armine Avetisyan, Arts and Peacebuilding Practitioner; Graduate Student in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence, Brandeis University
Gonca Sönmez-Poole (F99), Documentarian/Founder of Turkish-Armenian Women’s Alliance)
Anna Ackerman (F17), Co-founder of World to Table
Alex Galimberti, Senior Advocacy & Collaborations Advisor, Oxfam America
Moderator: Houchang Chehabi
Recording here.
Panel 5: Food, Cities, and Cultural Identity
Lynne Anderson, Director, English Language Learning, Boston College
John Carafoli, Author, Food Writer and International Food Stylist
Raad Al-Mumayiz, Co-founder of Sheherezad Food Truck
Suhair Al-Mosully, Co-founder of Sheherezad Food Truck
Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Food Writer and Mediterranean Cuisine Expert
Nawal Nasrallah, Food Writer and Author, historical Iraqi food culture
Moderator: Ibrahim Warde
Recording here.