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Thursday Common Hour: Beirut - The Port that Became an Educational Capital by Betty Anderson '87
| Event Type: | Lecture |
| Location: | Smith House Reese Room |
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
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Gigi St. Peter
(860)297-2397
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| Department: | History |
Sponsored by the History Department, International Studies Program, and Co-Curricular Initiative on Cities
Betty S. Anderson graduated from Trinity College in 1987 as a history and political science major and then received a PhD in Near Eastern History from UCLA in 1997. She is the author of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (University of Texas Press, 2005), The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education (University of Texas Press, 2011), and State and Society in the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2015). She has published articles in Civil Wars, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Critique, Jadaliyya.com and Jordanies, as well as chapters for a number of edited volumes. She has written about the themes covered by Islamic and history textbooks used in Jordan, the politicizing role of education in the twentieth-century Middle East history, and the evolution of the American liberal education system at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
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