| Date | Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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| Venue | Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2nd Floor, A2-1, Azariyeh Bldg, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut) Phone +961-(0)1-975851 |
| 14:30-14:40 | Welcome Address by Hidemitsu Kuroki (Head, JaCMES/ Professor, ILCAA) |
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| 14:40-15:25 | Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) “Workings of power to the eyes of Cairene woman in her twenties in the eve of revolution” |
| 15:25-16:10 | Masaki Mizobuchi (Joint Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University, Tokyo) “Arab Spring and the United States: Twilight of the Pax-Americana?” |
| 16:10-16:30 | Break |
| 16:30-17:15 | Masako Shimizu (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) The Participation of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority: The processes, impacts and implications” |
| 17:15-18:00 | Yoko Fujii (Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo) “Lebanon’s image in narratives of pilgrimage in the 17th century” |
| 18:00-18:20 | Break |
| 18:20-19:05 | Takayoshi Kuromiya (Ph.D. Candidate, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) “Economic growth of resource-exporting countries: Taking Egypt and Saudi Arabia as examples” |
| 19:05-19:50 | Shigeto Kondo (Ph.D. Candidate, Keio University, Tokyo) “‘Small states’ diplomacy’ during the First Oil Crisis: The cases of Kuwait, 1970-1973” |
- Commentators :
- Sari Hanafi (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Ray Mouawad (Assistant Professor, Lebanese American University)
- Jean-François Verne (Associate Professor, Kaslik Holy Spirit University)
- Habib Malik (Associate Professor, Lebanese American University)
- Observers and ILCAA staffs :
- Massoud Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
- Guita Hourani (Director, Lebanese Emigration Research Center, Notre Dame University)
- Khalil Karam (Vice President/ Professor, Saint Joseph University)
- Seiko Sugita (Programme Specialist, UNESCO)
- Peter Sluglett (Professor, National University of Singapore)
- Carole Doueiry Verne (Associate Professor, Saint Joseph University)
- Masato Iizuka (Professor, ILCAA)
- Nobuaki Kondo (Associate Professor, ILCAA)
- Hidemitsu Kuroki (Professor, ILCAA)
- Taku Osoegawa (Research Associate, JaCMES, ILCAA)
