New Book from CASAR Beirut: "Liberty and Justice in the Middle East"

Our partners at the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR), American University of Beirut, recently published the selected proceedings of their second international conference, “Liberty and Justice: America and the Middle East”, held in Beirut in January 2008. The volume contains 35 papers by scholars from Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Contributors include Scott Lucas of Libertas/Enduring America, Melanie McAlister, Djelal Kadir, Amy Kaplan, Timothy Marr, Norman Finkelstein, Mounira Soliman, and Seyed Mohammad Marandi.

The volume is available for $20, including shipping to North America and Europe. For information on how to order, please visit CASAR’s website or e-mail casar@aub.edu.lb.

A Look at Iranian Power: Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Al Jazeera

Another View from Iran: Seyed Mohammad Marandi on CNN (26 July)

Our colleague Seyed Mohammad Marandi, of the University of Tehran's Institute of North American and European Studies, has been quite busy lately, appearing on Al Jazeera English on Arab concerns about Iranian power (featured on Juan Cole's website and available below). He then appeared on the same channel to discuss the launch of Iran's first satellite, and Iran's political position in the region and with respect to the US, with Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Hadi Amr of the Brookings Institute of Doha (Parts 1 and 2 on the full-page version of this entry).

Marandi's interchange with Patrick Clawson is especially interesting, given Clawson's hard-line projection of Iran as an imminent military threat and his assocation with possible Obama envoy Dennis Ross at WINEP.

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