October 15, 2012
Even in the highest levels of United States government, the cause of the demonstrations in the Middle East — and the killing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya — following the online release of a trailer for a… more>
categories: undergraduate, faculty research
tags: fayez hammad, kevin van bladel, laurie brand, libya, middle east, middle east studies program, philip seib, sherman jackson, social science
July 26, 2012
During her sophomore year in high school, Anna Miner read Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s autobiography and became fascinated with the complexities of Middle Eastern and South Asian states.
“Before… more>
categories: undergraduate research, alumni
tags: alumna, arabic, international relations, laurie brand, middle east, presidential scholar, qatar scholarship, scholarship, social sciences
April 17, 2012
Laurie Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor and professor of international relations in USC Dornsife, has won a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency award to finish her project, Restor(y)ing the State: National… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: algeria, award, book, egypt, humanities, international relations, jordan, laurie brand, publication, social sciences