Event Date: March 5, 2013 - 12:00 pm
Location: FSS4007, University of Ottawa, 120 University, Ottawa

DAVID MENASHRI, Tel Aviv University.

Presented by CIPS and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
Free. In English. Registration is not required.

A light lunch will be offered.

Iran’s strive for nuclear power is viewed as a major threat to Israel and a serious challenge for the Middle East and the United States. The combination of nuclear power on the one hand and radical ideology on the other, in addition to Iran’s relation with radical Islamist movements (like Hamas and Hizballah), as well as with the Syrian regime all join to make Iran a major cause for concern. How determined is Iran in pursuing its nuclear program? How firm is the government at home? What can be done to dissuade Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program? What can the outside world do? Is an internal change possible?

David Menashri is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He currently serves as the head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History and is Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He has been a Visiting Fulbright scholar at Princeton University and Cornell University. In the late 1970’s he spent two years conducting research and field study in Iran on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. His research and teachings focus on the social and political history of modern Iran, education and modernization in the Middle East, Islamic radicalism, Shi`i political thought and Persian Gulf and Central Asian affairs.

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