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JAMES L. GELVINDEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

EDUCATION Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1992.

M.A., Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY, 1985.

B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1983.

RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCEProfessor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2005-.

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Visiting Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, 2002-2003.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1999-2005.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1995-1999.

RECENT HONORS AND GRANTSWinner, 2015 Middle East Studies Association Undergraduate Education Award.

Co-Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, 2015.

Research grant awarded from the International Institute, UCLA, 2015.

Co-Chairperson, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, 2014-15.

Nominee for President, Middle East Studies Association, 2014.

Board of Directors, Middle East Studies Association, 2011-2014.

Recipient, UCLA Academic Advancement Program Faculty Recognition Award, January 2008.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007 (for Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War).

Faculty Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, 2006-7.

Department of Education/Title VI Travel/Research Grant, Summer 2004.

Research Grant, G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, Summer 2003.

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Faculty Research Grant, Department of History, UCLA, Winter 2003.

UCLA Academic Senate Grant, Annually 1998-Present.

Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1999-2000.

President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California, 1999-2000.

Faculty Excellence Award, presented by the UCLA chapter of Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, 1998.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKSGlobal Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930 (co-editor, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).-----Revised Edition, 2015.

Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

-----Revised Edition, 2008.-----Revised Edition, 2014.-----Italian Edition, Giulio Einaudi Editore SpA, 2007.-----Polish Edition, Jagiellonian University Press, 2008.-----Portuguese Edition, Edipro, 2015.

The Modern Middle East: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).-----2nd Edition, 2007.-----3rd Edition, 2011.-----4th Edition, 2015.-----Italian Edition, Giulio Einaudi Editore SpA, 2008-----Turkish Edition, 2016.

Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

ARTICLES“The Arab Uprisings: Lessons to be Learned (and Unlearned),” Forum: “Le rivolte arabe in prospettiva storica,” Il Mestiere di Storico (Italian Society of Contemporary History—SISSCO), 5:1 (June 2013).

“‘Modernity,’ ‘Tradition,’ and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century 2

Damascus,” Die Welt des Islams 52 (2012).

“Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside Out,” Middle East Policy XVII, 3 (Fall 2010).

“‘Arab Nationalism’ Meets Social Theory,” “Pensée: ‘Arab Nationalism’: Has a New Framework Emerged?" International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009).

“Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian’s Reply to Terrorology,” and “Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian’s Reply to Terrology: Response to Commentaries,” Terrorism and Political Violence 20:4 (2008).

“The Politics of Notables Forty Years After,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 40:1 (June 2006).

“Globalization, Religion, and Politics in the Middle East: The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Global Development Studies (Winter 2004/Spring 2005).

“Islamism and Nationalism: Common Roots, Common Destinies,” Beiruter Blaetter: Mitteilungen des Orient-Institutes Beirut, 10-11 (March 2004).

“Zionism and the Representation of ‘Jewish Palestine’ at the New York World’s Fair, 1939-1940,” The International History Review XXII:1 (March 2000).

"Modernity and Its Discontents: On the Durability of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East," Nations and Nationalism 5:1 (January 1999).

"The League of Nations and the Question of National Identity in the Fertile Crescent," World Affairs (Summer 1995).

"The Social Origins of Popular Nationalism in Syria: Evidence for a New Framework," International Journal of Middle East Studies (November 1994).

"Demonstrating Communities in Post-Ottoman Syria," The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXV:I (Summer 1994).

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES"Comprendiendo las insurrecciones árabes," in G. Conde et al. (eds.), Mundo árabe: Levantamientos populares, contextos, crisis y reconfiguraciones (Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México/CIDE, 2015). 

“Was There a Mandates Period? Some Concluding Thoughts,” in Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (New York: Routledge, 2015).

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“Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” in Fahed Al-Sumait et al. (eds.), Conceptualizing the Arab Uprisings: Origins, Dynamics, and Trajectories (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

“The Arab World at the Intersection of the Transnational and National,” in David W. Lesch and Mark Haas (eds.), The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012).

-----Reprinted in Karl Yambert (ed.), The Contemporary Middle East: A Westview Reader (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013).

-----Revised and translated as “Arap Ayaklanmalarini Anlamak” in Y. Dogan Cetinkaya (ed.), Ortadogu: Direnis, Devrim, Emperyalizm (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2013).

-----Revised for The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East, 2nd Edition, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, forthcoming 2016).

“American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East,” in Michael Bonine et al. (eds.), Is There a Middle East? (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011).

“The Middle East Breasted Discovered,” in Geoff Emberling and John Larson (eds.), Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-20 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2010).

“Resolution of the Syrian General Congress, 1919,” in Brian Bonhomme and Cathleen Boivin (eds.), Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World (Dallas: Schlager Group, 2010).

“Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?: Reassessing the Lineages of Nationalism in Bilad al-Sham,” in Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann (eds.), From the Syrian Land to the State of Syria (Würtzburg: ERGON Verlag, 2004).

“T.E. Lawrence and Historical Representation,” in Charles Stang (ed.), The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002).

“Secularism and Religion in the Arab Middle East: Reinventing Islam in a World of Nation States,” in Derek R. Peterson and Darren Walhof (eds.), The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief and Politics in History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002).

“Developmentalism, Revolution, and Freedom in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq,” in Robert H. Taylor (ed.), The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).

"(Re)Presenting Nations: Demonstrations and Nationalisms in Pre-Mandate Syria," in F. Moge Gocek (ed.), Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002).

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“Napoleon in Egypt as History and Polemic,” in Irene Bierman (ed.), Napoleon in Egypt (Reading, ENG: Ithaca Press, 2003).

“The Other Arab Nationalism: Syrian/Arab Populism in Its Historical and International Contexts" in James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni (eds.), Rethinking Nationalisms in the Arab World (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

"The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission," in David W. Lesch (ed.), The United States in the Middle East: A Historical Reassessment (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995).

BOOK REVIEWSAvi Shlaim, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, International Journal of Middle East Studies, forthcoming.

Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism, Journal of Church and State, (July 23, 2013).

Firro, Kais. Metamorphosis of the Nation (al-Umma): The Rise of Arabism and Minorities in Syria and Lebanon, 1850-1940. Nations and Nationalism 15:4 (October 2009).

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. International History Review XXX, 4 (2008).

Amos Nadan, Amos. The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling; Assaf Likhovski, Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine. American Historical Review (October 2007).

Fruma Zachs, The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut. MESA Bulletin (June 2006).

Mansoor Moaddel, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse. The International History Review (September 2006).

Mark LeVine, Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine 1880-1948. Journal of Palestine Studies 138 (Winter 2006).

Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon. American Historical Review 107:1 (February 2002).

Eugene L. Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921. Middle East Journal 54:4 (Autumn 2000).

Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. The International History Review 22:4 (December 2000).

Kathleen Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on Middle East Policy. Political

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Science Quarterly 115:1 (Spring 2000).

Hasan Kayali, Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918. International Journal of Middle East Studies (February 1999).

Nicolaos Van Dam, The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Bacth Party. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 31 (1997).

Tamara Sonn, Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi’s Islamic Intellectual History. The Middle East Journal 4 (Autumn 1997).

Rashid Khalidi et al., The Origins of Arab Nationalism. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20:1 (1993).

OTHEROnline Commentary: “Understanding Islamic State: where does it come from and what does it want?” The Conversation, 29 January 2016, https://theconversation.com/understanding-islamic-state-where-does-it-come-from-and-what-does-it-want-52155.

-----“Décrypter Daech (1) : d’où vient-il et que veut-il?” 29 February 2016, https://theconversation.com/decrypter-daech-1-dou-vient-il-et-que-veut-il-55204.

Commentary: “La ceguera de los Saud,” La Razón (Madrid), 4 January 2016, http://www.larazon.es/internacional/la-ceguera-de-los-saud-FH11612362#.Ttt1njwS4uNRDL1.

Online Commentary: “Could an End to Syria’s Civil War be in Sight?” The Conversation, 17 December 2015, https://theconversation.com/could-an-end-to-syrias-civil-war-be-in-sight-52063.

Podcast: Getting Curious: “What's the Difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims and Why Don't They Love Each Other?,” 16 December 2015, http://www.maximumfun.org/getting-curious/getting-curious-whats-difference-between-sunni-and-shia-muslims-why-dont-they-love-e.

Videocast: Forum on Kurds: Crisis in Syria and Iraq, 15 December 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ync6ZjgeCAo.

Videocast: MESA Special Panel, “Debating Syria’s Future,” 15 December 2015, https://youtu.be/BBNPJl3LNLo.

“Preparing and Delivering Conference Papers,” Issues in Middle East Studies 37:2 (November 2015).

Videocast: “The Syria Crisis,” Pacifica Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 15 October 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqVxsKPB05g.

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Videocast: “James Gelvin addresses The Plato Society on the Rise and Fall of the Islamic State,” 21 May 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXG9mRhuaBg.

Podcast: Book Talk: “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd ed., 20 May 2015. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/TheArabUprisings-hf-1av.mp3.

Online Commentary: “Six Predictions about What Will Happen in Syria,” History News Network, 17 May 2015. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159417.

Radio Interview: “Counterpoint: James Gelvin on The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know,”WKNO (Memphis), 15 May 2015, http://wknofm.org/post/james-gelvin-arab-uprisings-what-everyone-needs-know.

Videocast: “The Past and the Future of the Middle East,” Panel: “Why History Matters and the Future of History,” Department of History, UCLA and Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, 2 April 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHALhftiNrs.

Videocast: “The Legacy of World War I in the Middle East,” Alden-Berg Lecture: “Legacies of World War I, UCLA History Department, 9 March 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7NaJncaOQ.

Online Commentary: “Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot,” OUPblog, History News Network, 7 February 2015. http://blog.oup.com/2015/02/dont-blame-sykes-picot/, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158462.

Podcast: “The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State,” Panel: “The Islamic State and the Yazidi Genocide,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 4 February 2015. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/The-Islamic-State-and-Yazidi-Genocide-3-ei-lhu.mp3.

Online Commentary: "Was Al-Qaeda a winner or loser from the Arab uprisings?" The Conversation, 4 December 2014. https://theconversation.com/was-al-qaeda-a-winner-or-loser-from-the-arab-uprisings-34847.

Online Commentary: “How Will the Syrian War be Resolved?” The Conversation, 2 December 2014. https://theconversation.com/how-will-the-syrian-war-be-resolved-34846,

Television Commentary: “World War I through Arab Eyes,” al-Jazeera and al-Jazeera America, Episodes 1-3, November-December 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-3HFY5n5A&list=PLJyrzEL-wvYKPBo6LPDoZkrlOY0C68ONp&index=3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERVlnlKCp40&index=2&list=PLJyrzEL-wvYKPBo6LPDoZkrlOY0C68ONp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtabAPAa3A&list=PLJyrzEL-wvYKPBo6LPDoZkrlOY0C68ONp&feature=share&index=3.

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“Egypt,” “Arab Spring of 2011-12,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 2013 (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014).

Television Interview: “What is Drawing Americans to ISIS?” The Cycle, MSNBC, 28 August 2014. http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/what-is-drawing-americans-to-isis--322916931838.

Online Interview: “ISIS-Baathist Alliance Likely to Break Down in the Near Future,” IranReview.org, 6 August 2014. http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/ISIS-Baathists-Alliance-Likely-to-Break-Down-in-Near-Future.htm.

Online Commentary: “What is the Islamic State and its Prospects,” OUPblog, 19 July 2014. http://blog.oup.com/2014/07/what-is-the-islamic-state-and-its-prospects/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=oupblog

Online Interview: “Expert: Takfiris Just One Step away from Salafists, Wahhabis,” Tasnim News Agency (Tehran), 29 June 2014. http://www.tasnimnews.com/English/Home/Single/416377, http://www.tasnimnews.com/Home/Single/415360.

Videocast: “The Mutating Syria Crisis,” Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), Ankara, 21 June 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoFUMvnE-_Q.

Online Commentary: Three-part Series: “Mission Impossible: What’s the Future for Israel-Palestine,” “Why Hasn’t it Been Possible for Israel and Palestine to Reach a Peaceful Agreement in the Last 50 Years?,” “Is a Peace Agreement Possible? What’s the Way Forward?,” Curious Animal, 20, 22, 29 May 2014. http://www.curiousanimal.com/mission-impossible-whats-future-israel-palestine/, http://www.curiousanimal.com/israel-palestine-hasnt-peace-possible/, http://www.curiousanimal.com/israel-palestine-peace-possible-whats-way-forward/.

Online Commentary: “Everything You Think You Know about the Egyptian Revolution is Wrong,” History News Network, 11 February 2014. http://hnn.us/article/154685.

Videocast: “Solutions for Syria,” Panel Discussion, Hammer Forum, 2 December 2013. http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2013/12/solutions-for-syria/.

Online Interview: “How Did We Get Here, and Where is This Conflict Going: Prof. Gelvin of UCLA Weighs in,” Syriachronicle.com, 4 December 2013. http://syriachronicle.com/how-did-we-get-here-and-where-is-this-conflict-going-prof-gelvin-of-ucla-weighs-in/.

Podcast: “Narrativizing Egypt’s Uprising,” Panel (with Ahmed Maher): “Reclaiming the Egyptian Revolution,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Department of History, 7 November 2013. http://web.international.ucla.edu/cnes/podcast/135574.

“Egypt,” “Arab Uprisings, 2010-2013,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 2013,

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1958364/Arab-Uprisings-2010-13-Year-In-Review-2013.

Videocast: "Crisis in Egypt and Syria," Global Consortium, Cerritos College, 12 September 2013. http://new.livestream.com/accounts/4129201/events/2385904.

Online Commentary: “The Real Goal of Obama’s Syria Policy,” History News Network, 8 September 2013. http://hnn.us/article/153220.

Commentary: “Room for Debate: “‘Spring’ Uprisings Are Nothing New,” New York Times, 15 August 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/08/14/is-this-the-end-of-the-arab-spring/spring-uprisings-are-nothing-new.

Online Commentary: “Here’s What Actually Happened (Response to Kanan Makiya,” The Quarterly DAG-3QD Peace and Justice Symposium: The Iraq War and Democracy in the Middle East, 1 July 2013. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/07/the-quarterly-dag-3qd-peace-and-justice-symposium-the-iraq-war-and-democracy-in-the-middle-east.html.

Online Commentary: “Ten Questions about the Crisis in Syria,” Center for Middle East Development, UCLA, 27 June 2013. http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/news/article.asp?parentid=132774.

Videocast: “The Arab Uprisings: An Analytical Framework,” Harvard University Center for Middle East Studies, 11 December 2012. http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3356.

Podcast: “Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Current Uprisings,” Podcast, International Institute, 1 November 2012. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/Gelvin-iy-kka.mp3.

Videocast: “Civil Society in Syria: Interfaith Relations during the Uprising” (panel with Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and Lindsay Gifford), UCLA, 5 August 2012. http://youtu.be/B2N4YNby8II.

Videocast: “Teaching MEIS through the Social Sciences: What Do Students Need to Know?,” Conference: “The Middle East across the Curriculum,” California State University, Northridge, 31 July 2012. http://mp3skull.tv/play.php?mp3=1bfsutjYr8OY5MI%3D&y=James%20Gelvin,%20UCLA.

Videocast: “What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational,” Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 24 May 2012. http://vimeo.com/44372953.

Podcast: “Living History with Professor James Gelvin,” History Graduate Student Association, UCLA Graduate Student Association, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 9 May 2012. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/Gelvin-Aron-ks-21o-1c-fgt.mp3.

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Videocast: “James Gelvin: Understanding the Egyptian Elections,” Alternate Focus Productions, 2 February 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQGwFjrOwc&list=HL1328302274&feature=mh_lolz.

Podcast: “What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational,” Panel: “Taking Stock: The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary” (with Juan Cole), UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 14 November 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/podcasts/article.asp?parentid=122954.

Podcast: “Libya: The First Arab Revolution?” Center for Near Eastern Studies, Global Voices for Justice, KPFK, 4 October 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/GelvinLibya-hw-1ii.mp3.

Online Interview: NEWTON (New Texts Out Now) series, Jadaliyya.edu, 31 August 2011. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2486/new-texts-out-now_james-gelvin-the-modern-middle-e.

“‘Coup-Proof?” History Today (August 2011).

Podcast: “Whither Syria?” Center for Near Eastern Studies and Global Voices for Justice, 25 May 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/Gelvin-ea-3l1.mp3.

Videocast: “Uncut,” (Remarks on Obama’s Middle East Speech, 23 May 2011), Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qA2xY3Avpo.

Videocast: UCLA News|Week Video: “Al-Qaeda after bin Laden,” 4 May 2011. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/news-week-al-qaeda-after-bin-laden-202606.aspx

Videocast: “[Omar] Suleiman and Egypt's future,” Youtube/UCLA Cross Section, 9 February 2011. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-cross-section-suleiman-and-192100.aspx.

Videocast: “Egypt and the Debt Crescent,” Youtube/UCLA Cross Section, 2 February 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXUlgUCnf84.

“Nationalism,” entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Nationalism,” entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Podcast: “Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East,” Conference: Foucault and Middle East Studies, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 29 April 2009. http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/podcasts/article.asp?parentid=107628.

Podcast: “Al-Qaeda as Anarchism,” Conference/Workshop: Jihadi Islam, UCLA Center for Near

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Eastern Studies, 27 November 2007. http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/jamesgelvin_Nov1307.mp3.

“Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” 24-part lecture series, The Teaching Company, 2002 (Check web for torrent).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2009“The Future of Syria,” Tele-conference: “The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East,” Turkish Heritage Society, Washington, DC, March 2016.

Panelist, “The Legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement,” Conference: “Understanding Syria’s Refugee Crisis, University of Southern California/Annenburg School for Communication and Journalism, February 2016.

Chair and Discussant, “The Futures of History: What Are the Ignored Opportunities and Missing Pieces?” Conference: “The Futures of History,” UCLA Department of History, February 2016.

Participant, MESA Roundtable on Syria, November 2015.

Organizer, Chair, Presenter, “The Future of the Survey Course,” Committee on Undergraduate Middle East Studies, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2015.

Chair and Discussant, “Rebellion in the Interwar Middle East,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2015.

“The Future of Syria: How to Resolve the Crisis,” International Syria Symposium, History Department, Yildirim Bayazit University and the Strategic Thinking Institute, Ankara, Turkey, April 2015.

“Spillovers: Turkey, Sectarianism, and the Islamic State,” Conference: “Islam and Foreign Policy in the “New” Turkey,” German Marshall Fund of the United States, January 2015.

“Sectarianism, the State System, and the Future of the State in the ‘New Middle East,’ “A Forum on the Political and Humanitarian Crisis in Syria and Iraq,” California State University, Long Beach, December 2014.

Roundtable Participant, “Expansive Pedagogy: New Sources and Approaches to Teaching the History of the Early Modern and Modern Middle East,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November, 2014.

Chair and Discussant, “Authoritarian State-Building in the Arab World,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2014.

“The Ottoman Origins of Arab Nationalism,” Panel: “Ottoman Legacies of the State,” Social Science Historical Association Annual Conference, November 2014.

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Chair, “Modern Transformations,” Conference: “From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan,” UCLA Program on Central Asia, October 2014.

“Why There was a Human Rights Revolution in the 1970s—and Why it Took the Form That it Did,” Conference: “Human Rights and Change,” International Studies Association, Istanbul, June 2014.

“Endnote,” Conference: “The Arabic-Speaking Levant in the Age of Late Imperialism: the Mandate States in Global Perspective,” Princeton University, September 2013.

“Crisis in Egypt and Syria: Discussion with Tariq Ramadan and James Gelvin,” Cerritos College, 12 September 2013.

Panel participant, “Sands of Strife: The Changing Middle East,” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 2013.

Respondent, Western Ottoman Studies Workshop, March 2013.

Respondent, Conference: "After Secularization," University of California Humanities Research Institute, March 2013.

"The Arab Uprisings," Milhaupt Symposium, UCLA, February 2013.

“The Syrian Crisis as History: What the Immediate Past Tells us About the Immediate Future,” Conference: “Resolving the Syria Crisis,” University of Denver, January 2013.

“Collective Memory and Nationalist Narrative: On the Possibility of Recounting a "Syrian Experience" of the First World War,” Panel: “Remembering the First World War in the Middle East,” Middle East Studies Association annual conference, November 2012.

Organizer and Chair, Special Session: “How the Arab Uprisings Have Made Us Rethink What We Knew about the Arab World,” Middle East Studies Association annual conference, November 2012.

Chair and Discussant, “The 1967 Watershed: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Aftermath of the June War,” Middle East Studies Association annual conference, November 2012.

“Justice and History,” First Istanbul World Forum, Prime Ministry's Office of Public Diplomacy and the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research, October 2012.

“Why Things Went the Way They Have,” Conference: “Democratization in Syria, Syrians and Kurds at a Cross Road: Perspectives and Prospects for Change,” California State University, Long Beach, October 2012.

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Panel: “Civil Society in Syria: Interfaith Relations during the Syrian Uprising,” UCLA, August 2012.

“What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational,” Conference: “The Arab Uprisings One Year Later: Examining the Possibilities and Risks,” National University of Singapore Near East Institute, May 2012.

“Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” Conference: “Religion and Nationalism,” University of California, Irvine, May 2012.

Moderator, “Perspectives on Partition,” Olive Tree Initiative at UCLA, May 2012.

Roundtable: "The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process," UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President's Office and Campus Events Commission, February 2012.

Moderator, “Report from the Ground: The Arab Awakening One Year On,” Pacific Council on International Policy, February 2012.

Roundtable: Political Transition, Rule of Law, and Human Rights: What have we learned from the Arab Spring?, Conference on “Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring,” UCLA Law School/Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, February 2012.

Panel: “Reaping the Fruit of the Arab Spring: Seeds of Peace or Further Discontent?” Pacific Council on International Policy Annual Conference, November 2011.

“Teaching MEIS through the Social Sciences: What Do Students Need to Know?,” Conference: “The Middle East across the Curriculum,” California State University, Northridge, November 2011.

Moderator, New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies, UCLA, October 2011.

“Rethinking the Big Picture: Narrating Middle Eastern History in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings, 1944-Present,” Conference: “Teaching the Middle East after Tunisia and Egypt: Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Neoliberalism,” George Mason University, May 2011.

“Arab Uprisings: Causes and Patterns,” Roundtable: “Egypt for the Egyptians: The Uprisings in the Middle East,” Pomona College, February 2011.

“The Transformation of the Civic Order in the Ottoman Empire: 1839-1914,” Roundtable: “Rethinking Ottomanism: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Late Imperial Modernity,” MESA 2010 Meeting, November 2010.

Introduction, Circuits and Networks: Islam and Islamic Communities during the First Age of

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Globalization Conference, UCLA, February 2010

“American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East,” Conference: “Connections and Ruptures,” Center for American Studies and Research, American University in Beirut, January 2010.

Video-conference, “Current State of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict,” Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), November 2009.

Panel Chair, Conference: "‘Invasion is a structure not an event’: Settler Colonialism Past and Present,” UCLA, November 2009

“Introduction,” “Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East,” Conference: “Foucault and Middle East Studies, UCLA, April 2009.

“Politico-Economic Discourse and the Middle East State in the Twentieth Century,” Conference: “The Global Middle East,” University of North Carolina, February 2009.

INVITED LECTURES SINCE 2009“ISIS and the Future of Syria,” Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, 18 February 2016.

“ISIS, Terror, and Syria,” Skiball Cultural Center’s Great Decisions Series/Foreign Policy Association, 28 January 2016.

“ISIS,” Political Science Students Organization, UCLA, 25 January 2016.

“ISIS and Prospects for Continued Instability in the Middle East,” UCLA Global Security Seminar, 21 January 2016.

Panel Participant: “Mapping the Islamic State's Expansion: North Africa & Beyond,” Pacific Council Global Pulse Luncheon Series, December 2015.

Panel Participant: “On the Terrorist Attacks in Paris,” UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, December 2015.

“Origins of a Contemporary Crisis: Secret Middle Eastern Diplomacy during and after World War I,” Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, October 2015.

“Spotlight on ISIS,” University of Southern California, October 2015.

“Again, They’re Getting It Wrong about ISIS,” UCLA Seminar on History and Policy, UCLA Department of History, June 2015.

“The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State,” The PLATO Society of Los Angeles, May 2015.

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Book Talk: The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd Edition), Center for Near Eastern Studies and Department of History, UCLA, May 2015.

“The Evolution of the Islamic State,” American Research Institute in Turkey, April 2015.

Panel Discussion: “ISIS: A Discussion on the Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Its History, and Its Social Implications,” Department of Sociology, San Diego State University, April 2015.

“Exploring the Myth of the Islamic State,” “Public Intellectuals at Pitzer,” Pitzer College, April 2015.

Workshop, “Global and Historical Studies,” Butler University, April 2015.

“The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State (ISIS), Butler University, April 2015.

“The Slow Rise and Rapid Decline of the Islamic State (ISIS),” Rhodes College, March 2015.

“After the Cataclysm: Rewriting the Middle East in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings,” Historians at Work Series, Rhodes College, March 2015.

“Prospects for the Middle East,” Rhodes College, March 2015.

“Historical Perspectives on the Causes of Middle East Conflicts,” Panel discussion: “The Modern Origins of Contemporary Conflicts in the Middle East” lecture series, University of North Carolina Program in the Humanities, March 2015.

“The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State,” “The Modern Origins of Contemporary Conflicts in the Middle East” lecture series, University of North Carolina Program in the Humanities. March 2015.

“Understanding the Islamic State,” Curriculum in Peace, War, and Diplomacy, University of North Carolina, March 2015.

“ISIS and the Islamic State,” Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, February 2015.

Panelist: “The Past and the Future of the Middle East,” “Why History Matters and the Future of History,” Department of History, UCLA and Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, February 2015.

“Syria, Iraq, and the Birth and Death of the Islamic State,” “Beyond the Headlines” Series, UCLA Extension School, February 2015.

"The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State," Panel: “The Islamic State and the Yazidi Genocide,”

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Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, January 2015.

“The Legacy of World War II in the Middle East,” Alden-Berg Lecture: “Legacies of World War I, UCLA History Department, January 2015.

Panel Discussion, Film: “Return to Homs,” Human Rights Watch, San Diego, January 2015.

“Why the Israel-Palestine Conflict Doesn’t Matter Anymore,” UCLA Olive Tree Initiative, January 2015.

“What’s Next in the Syrian Civil War,” “A Forum on the Political and Humanitarian Crisis in Syria and Iraq,” California State University, Long Beach, December 2014.

“How World War I Shaped the Middle East,” Panel Discussion: “Legacies of the First World War, UCLA Department of History, November 2014.

“ISIS and the US Response,” Los Angeles World Affairs Council, October 2014.

“The Modern Middle East in Two Acts,” Series: “The Middle East: Cauldron of Crisis and Change,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, July 2014.

“The Mutating Syria Crisis,” Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), Ankara, June 2014.

“The Syria Crisis: How it Developed, Where it is Going?” Museum Lectures, Department of History, Bogazaci University, Istanbul.

“Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine, May 2014.

“US-Syria Relations,” Amnesty UCLA, February 2014

“Solutions for Syria,” Panel Discussion, Hammer Forum, December 2013.

“The Arab Spring,” Columbia Alumni SoCal Club, November 2013.

“The Crisis in Syria,” Panel discussion, Semana Arabe en Mexico, Semana Árabe en México, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A. C. y El Colegio de México, Mexico City, November 2013.

“Understanding the Arab Uprisings,” Semana Arabe en Mexico, Semana Árabe en México, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A. C. y El Colegio de México, Mexico City, November 2013.

“Narrativizing Egypt’s Uprising,” Panel with Ahmed Maher, “Reclaiming the Egyptian

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Revolution,” G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and Department of History, UCLA, November 2013.

“The Egyptian and Syrian Uprisings,” Los Angeles Teachers’ Education Project, October 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings 2.5,” Foreign Service Institute, September 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings as History,” UCLA History-Geography Project, September 2013.

Keynote Address, “Understanding the Arab Uprisings,” Middle East Studies Center Summer Institute, Portland State University, July 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings,” First Friday Ideas Salon, July 2013.

"The Arab Uprisings as History," University of Bologna, May 2013.

"Uprisings and Interventions: Emerging Forces and Dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa," 27th International Training Course, Geneva Centre for Strategic Policy, April 2013.

Keynote Speaker, 13th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, April 2013.

“The Syrian Implosion: Where it Came From, Where it is Going,” “Beyond the Headlines Program,” UCLA Extension School, March 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings and the Israel-Palestine Conflict,” Boston College, March 2013.

“The Syria Crisis,” Pacifica Institute, Los Angeles, February 2013.

“America and the Middle East in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings,” The Milhaupt Symposium, UCLA, February 2013. 

"The Arab Uprisings: Where They've Gone, What They've Shown," California State University, Sacramento, February 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings as History: Patterns and Dissonances,” Columbia University Arab Studies Seminar, January 2013.

“The Arab Uprisings as History,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings: An Analytical Framework,” Harvard University, Center for Middle East Studies, December 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings at the Intersection of the Transnational and National,” Brandeis University, December 2012.

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“The Arab Uprisings,” Claremont-McKenna College, November 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings Two Years On,” California Institute for the Arts, November 2012. “Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” Center for the Study of Religion Faculty Lecture Series, von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, November 2012.

“Thinking Historically about the Arab Uprisings,” Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State, Washington, DC, September 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings: The Forest through the Trees,” Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State, Washington, DC, September 2012.

“After Assad: The Future of Political Order in Syria” (panel discussion with Steven Heydemann), Center for Stategic and International Studies, Washington DC, September 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings as History,” George Washington University, Washington DC, September 2012. 

“James Gelvin & Khalid Hussein on the Arab Awakenings,” Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, August 2012.

Panel Discussion on Syria with Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and Lindsay Gifford, UCLA, August 2012.

“Hammer Conversation” on Syria (with Malek Jandali and Mona Simpson), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 2012.

“Assessing a Year and a Half of Arab Uprisings,” UCLA Global Security Seminar, June 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings and Public History,” Living History Lecture Series, UCLA History Graduate Student Association, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Graduate Student Association, April 2012.

“You Say You Want a Revolution,” UCLA Undergraduate History Honors Society (Phi Alpha Theta), April 2012.

“Political Islam in a Time of Turmoil: A Historical Overview,” University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, March 2012.

“Making Sense of the Arab Uprisings," University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, March 2012.

“Arab Spring/Arab Fall?: A Look Back,” University of Kansas, March 2012.

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“Presenting the Arab Spring,” University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), March 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings: Linkages and Disjunctures,” UCLA Law School Faculty Colloquium, March 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings as History,” California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, March 2012.

“The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational, Occidental College, February 2012.

"Rethinking the Arab Uprisings One Year Later,” University of Texas (Austin), January 2012.

“The Arab Uprisings One Year On,” UCLA History-Geography Project, December 2011.

Moderator, “The Arab Spring in Egypt,” Artists and Athletes Alliance, Los Angeles, November 2011.

"What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational," forum: "Taking Stock: The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary," UCLA CNES and History Department, November 2011.

“The Arab Spring and Its Meaning for the United States,” La Cañada/La Crescenta Democratic Club, October 2011.

“Libya: The First Arab Revolution?" UCLA CNES, October 2011.

Commentary on “Connecting the dots: the regional history of the Mandate Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Transjordan, 1918-1948)," Research Workshop, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, September 2011.

“What the Arab Uprisings Mean for Humanitarian Intervention,” International Symposium: “Humanitarian Action in the Context of Social Unrest: Challenges to Aid Efforts during the Arab Spring,” American Red Cross of the Los Angeles Region, September 2011.

“Understanding the Arab Uprisings,” UCLA History-Geography Project Summer Institute, July 2011.

“Whither Syria?” UCLA Program of Iranian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, History Department, May 2011.

“The Arab Uprisings,” Beyond the Headlines Speaker Series, UCLA Extension School, May 2011.

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“Current Events in the Arab World,” Student Programming, Courtside Residence Hall, UCLA, April 2011.

Keynote Speaker, Olive Tree Initiative National Conference: “How the Uprisings in the Middle East Might Affect the Peace Process—That is, if There was a Peace Process,” April 2011.

“Popular Uprisings in the Arab Middle East,” Santa Monica Rotary Club, April 2011.

Keynote Speaker, Conference: “Facebook Revolution: Social Networking as Mobilizing Force toward Political Change and Democratization in Egypt and across the Arab Word,” Long Beach City College, April 2011.

“The Current Uprisings in the Middle East,” Department of History, UCLA, February 2011.

“From Tunisia to Egypt,” United Arab Society of UCLA, February 2011.

“Political Islam and the Global War on Terror,” San Diego Chancellor's Associates, University of California, February 2011.

“Varieties of Political Islam,” Swarthmore College, January 2011.

“Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside-Out,” University of Pennsylvania, January 2011.

“The Culture Wars of Early Twentieth-Century Damascus,” University of Pennsylvania, January 2011.

“Enemies and Mistaken Identities: Political Islam in a Post-9/11 World,” Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA, November 2010.

“The Politics of Islam,” Brown University, September 2010.

"'Modernity', 'Tradition' and the Battleground of Gender in Early 20th Century Damascus," Brown University, September 2010.

Keynote Speaker, “The United Nations’ Role in the 1967 War,” National Model U.N. Conference, April 2010.

“The Israel-Palestine Conflict,” Great Decisions lecture series, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA, March 2010.

Appleby Lecture, San Diego State University, “A Global War Against Whom, Exactly?” March 2010.

Twenty-fifth Annual Russel B. Swenson Lecture, Brigham Young University, “Enemies and

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Mistaken Identities: Political Islam in a Post-9/11 World,” March 2010.

Sesquicentennial Lecture, “Varieties of Political Islam,” University of Memphis, November 2009.

Talk, “Introduction to the Question of Palestine,” Palestine Awareness Week, UCLA, May 2009.

“Global War on What, Exactly?: Making Sense of Political Islam,” Boston College, March 2009.

Talk: “Political Islam: What Ayman al-Zawahiri Knows That We Should,” Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, University of North Carolina, February 2009.

INTERVIEWS SINCE 2009938LIVE (Singapore Radio), 22 February 2016.

Tampa Bay Times, 3 February 2016.

Voice of America News, 16 January 2016.

TheStreet.com, 5 January 2016 (reposted by denverpost.com).

La Razón (Madrid), 4 January 2016, 15 January 2016.

Pacific Standard, 17 December 2015.

Politifact/Virginia, 30 November 2015.

Upvoted.com, 18 November 2015.

KPFA-FM, 17 October 2015.

CNN/CNN International, 8 October 2015, 29 February 2016 (x2).

“Hey Felicia,” Podcast, 5 October 2015.

Marketplace, National Public Radio, 2 September 2015.

El País (Madrid), June 2015.

The Guardian (UK), 5 June 2015.

Daily Beast, 12 May 2015.

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“Counterpoint,” WKNO-FM (Memphis), 15 May 2015.

Salon.com, 11 May 2015.

Middle East Peace and Development House (Ankara), 27 April 2015.

The Arab Daily News, 26 April 2015.

TFT Television (Turkey), 24 April 2015.

Scripps National Desk, 21 April 2015.

“Total BS,” Sirius XM American Latino Radio, March 2015.

Revista Semana (Bogota, Colombia), March 2015.

Sputnik News Agency, 16 March 2015, 26 March 2015, 21 April 2015, 26 June 2015, 14 September 2015.

Documentary: “Kleptocracy,” February 2015.

Florida Politifact/Tampa Bay News, February 2015.

TheWrap.com, January 2015.

Reuters (Beirut), 30 October 2014.

RT (Russian Television) America, 25 September 2014.

KNBC, 22 September 2014.

“A Public Affair” WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI), 15 September 2014.

“The Cycle,” MSNBC, 28 August 2014.

“CNN Tonight,” CNN, 27 August 2014.

NBC News Digital, 26 August 2014.

Los Angeles Times, 12 August 2014, 22 May 2015 (Reprinted in Jutarnji list [Zagreb, Croatia] and POSKOK.info [Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina], 30 August 2015).

Voiceamerica.com, 12 August 2014, 14 October 2014.

KCWG, August 2014.

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Punditfact, 3 August 2014.

Hamshahr (Tehran), August 2014.

Iran Review (Tehran), August 2014.

Black Entertainment Television (BET), July 2014.

Sunday Business Post (Ireland), 13 July 2014.

Ukrayinskiy Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week) (Kiev, Ukraine), 8 July 2014.

“Press Play,” KCRW, 1 July 2014

Tasnim News Agency (Tehran), 28 June 2014.

CBC.ca (Canadian Broadcasting), 23 June 2014.

Anadolu Agency (Istanbul), June 2014 (picked up by Haberler, AnalizMerkezi, News.nom.co, Cumra Postasi, Ada Basini, Medya 365, Ogretman.web, Orme Dunyasi, Diplomacy Post, Genis Ufuk, Gundemi Yorumla, Yeni Akit, Hurseda Haber, TRT.tr, Yeni Akit Gazetesi, Bildiris).

TRT Television (Turkey), June 2014.

NTN24 (television, Bogota, Colombia), 13 June 2014.

CNBC Television (Singapore), 3 June 2014, 23 September 2014.

Toronto Globe and Mail, 27 May 2014, 23 January 2013, 7 May 2015, 6 August 2015.

“Mission Impossible: What’s the Future for Israel-Palestine,” Curious Animal website, May 2014.

Tokyo Shimbun, May 2014.

On Religion, April 2014.

Congressional Quarterly, February 2014, January 2015.

La Segunda Newspaper (Santiago, Chile), 30 January 2014.

BBC Radio 5, 24 January 2014

Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), 22 January 2014, 27 January 2014, 22 June 2014, 13 August

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2014, 26 August 2014, 23 September 2014, 8 October 2014, 3 March 2015, 7 April 2015, 21 April 2015, 1 July 2015, 28 September 2015, 17 December 2015, 22 February 2016.

BBC World Television News, 21 January 2014, 31 July 2014.

syriachronicle.com, November 2013.

pesurse.ro (Romania), November 2013.

Wisconsin Politifact, October 2013, 2 October 2015.

Derin Tarih (Istanbul), October 2013, June 2014 (excerpted in haber7.com, konyahaberal.com, mansettv.com), August 2014.

“Empire,” al-Jazeera (English), September 2013.

Politifact, 9 September 2013, February 2014.

“A Possible Syrian War?” live panel discussion, “Today,” China Radio International (Beijing), 1 September 2013.

LA Talk Radio, 30 August 2013.

WCCO, Minneapolis, 17 August 2013.

900CHML, Hamilton, Ontario, 15 August 2013.

KIRO, Seattle, 15 August 2013.

Le Figaro, 15 August 2013 (picked up by: Senegal1.net, Adevărul (Bucharest), peuples-observateurs.org (Togo), Daily News (Dakar), Tunisie Focus).

al-Jazeera (America), 14 August 2013, 15 August 2013, 17 August 2013, 19 August 2013 (x2), 1 September 2013, 2 September 2013, 13 September 2013, 21 October 2013, 11 January 2014, 22 January 2014, 24 January 2014, 17 February 2014, 25 May 2014, 3 June 2014, 7 June 2014, 21 July 2014, 8 August 2014, 14 August 2014, 26 August 2014, 11 September 2014, 2 July 2015, 24 October 2014, 17 November 2015 (background), 13 December 2015, 21 February 2016.

msn.com, July 2013.

Metro Brasil (Sao Paolo), July 2013, 14 August 2013, 30 September 2013.

Huffington Post, July 2013.

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MingPao (明報), (Hong Kong), 28 June 2013, 5 July 2013, 6 July 2013, 7 July 2013, 23 July 2013, 4 August 2013 (also: creaders.net, peacehall.com, hkmsn.com, mingpaotor.com, newshave8.com, finance.sina.com.hk), 14 August 2013, 16 August 2013, 24 August 2013, 31 August 2013, 11 September 2013, May 2014, 15, 16 June 2014, 29 June 2014, 21 July 2014, 4 August 2014, 24 August 2014, 24 January 2015, 9 October 2015, 11 December 2015, 26 January 2016.

Buzzfeed, June 2013.

The Sacramento Bee, June 2013, 22 August 2013, 5 September 2013.

China Central TV—International, May 2013, 6 July 2013, 10 July 2013, 14 August 2013, 15 August 2013, 16 August 2013, 20 August 2013, 1 September 2013, 23 January 2014, 12 July 2014, 22 July 2014, 27 July 2014, 31 July 2014, 12 August 2014, 16 October 2014.

KCBS News, April 2013, 2 July 2014.

Il Manifesto (Italy), March 2013, October 2013, 6 August 2014, 15 August 2014, 28 August 2014.

al-Jazeera (London), February 2013, 11 January 2014, 22 January 2014, 26 September 2015.

“Unrest in the Arab World: Will the Arab Spring Lead to More Change?” Congressional Quarterly Researcher 23:5 (1 February 2013).

cnn.com, January 2013.

Specimen Magazine, January 2013.

This Morning, TBS eFM (Seoul, Korea), December 2012.

Linkiesta (Rome/Milan), December 2012.

“The Egyptian Constitutional Crisis,” live panel discussion, Beyond Beijing, China Radio International (Beijing), 2 December 2012.

Ventura County Star, 4 November 2012.

Orange County Register, October 2012.

Dünya Bülteni (World Bulletin, Istanbul), October 2012.

A9 TV (Istanbul), October 2012.

“The United States and the Middle East,” live panel discussion, Beyond Beijing, China Radio 25

International (Beijing), 24 September 2012.

WILS, Lansing Michigan, 12 September 2012.

“The Failure of the Annan Mission to Syria,” live panel discussion, Beyond Beijing, China Radio International (Beijing), 13 August 2012.

Panel discussion, Radio China International “Today” Show, June 2012 (Egyptian elections).

Pravda (Bratislava, Slovakia), June 2012, December 2014.

“The First Anniversary of Bin Laden’s Death,” China Radio International, 1 May 2012.

“#ChicagoGirl,” Houseblend Media, April 2012.

Aslan Media, March 2012.

Biography Channel (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi), February 2012.

Veja (magazine—Sao Paulo, Brazil), February 2012, July 2012, September 2013, 13 August 2015.

National Post (Canada), February 2012.

Annenburg TV News (Los Angeles), February 2012.

Alternate Focus Productions, January 2012.

al-Manar (newspaper, Beirut), 12 December 2012.

espn.go.com, 20 October 2011.

UCLARadio.com, http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/multimedia/43959, October 2011; http://dailybruin.com/2013/09/09/long-story-short-september-9-2013/, September 2013, http://dailybruin.com/2015/05/04/long-story-short-may-4-2015/, May 2015.

Voice of Russia, 16 September 2011, 18 October 2011, January 2012, September 2012, March 2013, August 2013.

“The Palestinian Statehood bid at the UN," live panel discussion, Beyond Beijing, China Radio International (Beijing), 6 September 2011.

Los Angeles Daily News, 11 September 2011, 15 March 2013, 8 August 2014.

"Has the Arab Spring Made Israel Less Safe?" live panel discussion, Beyond Beijing, China

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Radio International (Beijing), 31 August 2011.

Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 Horas (NTN 24), 23 August 2011, 30 April 2012.

KPFK Radio Intifada, 2 June 2011.

Pasadena Star News, 19 May 2011 (republished by San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News), March 2013.

Correio Braziliense (Brasilia), 18 May, 24 May, 26 July 2011, 14 September 2011, 1 November 2011, 12 September 2012.

Guardian (London), 17 May 2011.

KCRW: “To the Point,” 17 May 2011, 8 August 2014.

Metro Networks (Radio), 2 May 2011.

KTLA TV, 2 May 2011, 20 October 2011, 13 September 2013.

Columbia News Service/World Policy Journal, April 2011.

al-Jazeera Television, March 2011, 8 April 2011, 30 April 2011, 10 May 2011, 1 June 2011, 12 September 2012.

Young World TV, March 2011.

KPFK Radio, “Background Briefing,” 24, 27 March 2011, 9 August 2011, 30 October 2011, 16 February 2012, 18 March 2012, 17 April 2012, 18 July 2012, 12 November 2012, 25 March 2013, 3 September 2013, 27 February 2014, 12 June 2014, 21 May 2015, 5 October 2015, 23 November 2015.

Our Weekly, Los Angeles, March 2011.

KQED Forum, February 2011, March 2011, 19 May 2011.

BBC-5, February 2011.

Good Day L.A., February 2011, 20 October 2011, 12 September 2012, 13 September 2012.

Washingtonpost.com, February 2011.

cnn.com, 10, 11 February 2011, 27 April 2011, 21 October 2011, 12, 13 September 2012.

KABC, February 2011, March 2011, 22 August 2014, 3 September 2014, 23 September 2014,

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April 2015, 16 November 2015, 17 November 2015.

The Epoch Times (New York/Beijing), February 2011, 12 September 2012.

KTTV/KCOP Television 6, 11, 13 February 2011, 21 March 2011, 1 May 2011, 21 August 2011.

KNX Radio, February 2011.

Bloomberg Television, February 2011.

TFT Film Productions/Turkish Broadcasting Corporation (TRT), Turkish Ministry of Culture, October 2010.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, September 2010.

Saturnalia Productions (documentary on oil), August 2010.

Life Week (Beijing), July 2010.

“Voices of the Middle East Radio Show, UCLA radio, www.uclaradio.com, April 2010.

Bloomberg Radio, September 2009.

Christian Science Monitor, May 2009.

Chicago Public Radio (WLUW), March 2009.

Interview, Folha de Sao Paulo, January 2009, September 2010, 27 July 2014.

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