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LISTEN The Syrian uprising broke out more than two months into the Arab Spring and took everyone by surprise. For a number of reasons, the prospect of an uprising taking place in Syria at this point was deemed to be low, but the resilience and bravery of the…
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Sponsored by MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Global Zero.
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The environmental damage being done to the earth has reached crisis proportions. Many causes have been proposed: too many people; industrial society; human ignorance or inability to control themselves; human nature (greed); and a “perpetual growth philosophy.” Discussion will be focused on how the inner logic and normal…
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LISTEN Co-sponsored with the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar.
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After receiving his Ph. D. from Yale University in 1968, Ali Banuazizi taught at Yale and the University of Southern California before joining the Boston College Faculty in 1971. Since then, he has held visiting appointments and fellowships at the University of Tehran, Princeton, Harvard, and Oxford University,…
