The seminar brings to campus a who's who of experts on the Middle East. Below is a sampling of past speakers:
Christophe Abi-Nassif (Middle East Institute), Joelle Abi-Rached (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), Ervand Abrahamian (Baruch College, CUNY), Feroz Ahmad (University of Massachusetts), Leila Ahmed (University of Massachusetts), Taner Akçam (Clark University), Ibrahim Al-Assil (Middle East Institute), Hala Aldosari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lamis Andoni (Harvard University), Mohammed Arkoun (Univ La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Bernard Avishai (KPMG, Boston), Sadek El-Azem (University of Damascus), Sahar Aziz (Rutgers Law School), Robert Azzi (Photojournalist), Andrew Bacevich (Boston University), Ali Banuazizi (Boston College), James Bill (The College of William & Mary), Barbara Bodine (Harvard University), Chloe Bordewich (University of Toronto), Nora Boustany (The Washington Post), Michaelle Browers (Wake Forest University), L. Carl Brown (Princeton University), Gilbert Burnham (Johns Hopkins University), Melani Cammett (Harvard University), Naomi Chazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dominique Chevallier (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Helena Cobban (Brookings Institution), David Commins (Dickinson College), Georges Corm (Paris), Eric Davis (Rutgers University), Alexander de Waal (World Peace Foundation), Assia Djebar (Louisiana State University), Charles Dunbar (Simmons College), Khaled Fahmy (Tufts University), Mamoun Fandy (Georgetown University), Leila Farsakh (CIS, MIT), F. Gregory Gause III (University of Vermont), Irene Gendzier (Boston University), Fawaz Gerges (Sarah Lawrence College), Kim Ghattas (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Fatma Muge Gocek (University of Michigan), Nilüfer Göle (Bogazici University), Alain Gresh (Le Monde Diplomatique), Leon Hadar (American University), Yvonne Haddad (University of Massachusetts), Lydia Harrington (The Syria Museum), Bernard A. Haykel (Princeton University), Arthur Hertzberg (Columbia University), Nadia Hijab (United Nations), Raymond Hinnebusch (College of St. Catherine), Christopher Hitchens (The Nation Magazine), Cecil Hourani (London), Michael Hudson (Georgetown University), Rima Khalaf Hunaidi (United Nations), Hussein Ibish (American Task Force on Palestine), Resat Kasaba (University of Washington), Farhad Kazemi (New York University), Nikki Keddie (UCLA), Herbert Kelman (Harvard University), Samir Khalaf (AUB/Princeton University), Sulayman Khalaf (Harvard University), Rashid Khalidi (University of Chicago), Walid Khalidi (Harvard University), Rami G. Khouri (Daily Star, Beirut), Elias Khoury (New York University), Eberhard Kienle (Université d'Aix-Marseille), Stephen Kinzer (Brown University), Judith Kipper (Brookings Institution), Joseph Kostiner (Tel Aviv University), Peter Krause PhD '11 (Boston College), Christina Lassen (Harvard University), Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), William Lawrence (North Africa Program for International Crisis Group), Ann Lesch (Villanova University), Ian Lustick (University of Pennsylvania), Marc Lynch (The George Washington University), Robert Mabro (Oxford University), Ussama Makdisi (Rice University), Kanan Makiya (Brandeis University), Chibli Mallat (Université Saint-Joseph), Robert Malley (International Crisis Group), Moshe Maoz (Hebrew University), Serif Mardin (Bogazici University), Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (UCLA), Tarek Masoud (Harvard Kennedy School), Safwan Masri (Columbia University), Fatema Mernissi (Mohammed V University), Dalia Mogahed (Gallup Center for Muslim Studies), Ahmad Moussalli (American University of Beirut), Marwan Muasher (Carnegie Endowment), Richard Murphy (Council on Foreign Relations), Salim Nasr (Ford Foundation), Augustus Richard Norton (United States Military Academy), Roger Owen (Oxford/Harvard), Matti Peled (Tel Aviv University), Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam), Kenneth Pollack PhD '96 (Brookings Institution), William B. Quandt PhD '68 (Brookings Institution), Abdul-Karim Rafeq (College of William & Mary), André Raymond (Université de Provence), Hugh Roberts (Tufts University), Nadim Rouhana (Fletcher School, Tufts University), Olivier Roy (CNRS, Paris), Sarah Roy (CIS, MIT), Dankwart Rustow (City University of New York), Malise Ruthven (British Broadcasting Corporation), Yahya Sadowski (Brookings Institution), Emile Sahliyeh (University of North Texas), Nawaf Salam (American University of Beirut), Ghassan Salamé (University of Paris), Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Virginia Tech), Paul Salem (American University of Beirut), Harold Saunders (American Enterprise Institute), Patrick Seale (The Observer, London), Elaine Sciolino (The New York Times), Anthony Shadid (The Boston Globe), Hanan Al-Shaykh (London), Jonathan Shimshoni (Princeton University), Gary Sick (Columbia University), Steven Simon (Center for International Studies, MIT), Marion Farouk-Sluglett (University of Swansea), Peter Sluglett (University of Durham), Naghmeh Sohrabi SB '94 (Brandeis University), Ahdaf Soueif (Arab Cultural Foundation, London), Charles Smith (Wayne State University), Denis Sullivan (Northeastern University), Riad Tabbarah (Washington, D.C.), Salim Tamari (Institute of Jerusalem Studies), Shibley Telhami (Cornell University), Mark Tessler (University of Michigan), Bassam Tibi (University of Gottingen), Abdullah Toukan PhD '76 (Amman, Jordan), Fawwaz Traboulsi (Lebanese American University), Brian Urquhart (Ford Foundation), Robert Vitalis SM '84, PhD '89 (University of Pennsylvania), John Voll (University of New Hampshire), Ibrahim Warde (Le Monde Diplomatique), John Waterbury (Princeton University/AUB), Maha Yahya PhD '05 (Carnegie Middle East Center), Malika Zeghal (Harvard University), John Zogby (Zogby International), Marvin Zonis PhD '63 (University of Chicago).
