| Date | Saturday, November 23, 2013 |
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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 |
| 10:00-10:10 | Welcome Address by Hidemitsu Kuroki (Head, JaCMES/ Professor, ILCAA) |
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| Chair : | Aiko Nishikida (Assistant Professor, ILCAA) |
| 10:10-10:55 | Namie Tsujigami (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) “Saudi Women’s Negotiation of Power and Space through Driving Campaigns” |
| 10:55-11:40 | Takuya Murakami (Ph.D. Candidate, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) “What Kind of Role Does GCC Play for Regional Security?: The Significance of the Peninsula Shield Force Deployment to Bahrain and the Possibility of Cooperative Security” |
| 11:40-11:50 | Break |
| Chair : | Hidemitsu Kuroki |
| 11:50-12:35 | Yusuke Kawamura (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University/ Durham University) “Structural Adjustment and Social Protection in the MENA Region: Food Subsidies in Jordan” |
| 12:35-13:20 | Yushi Chiba (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/The University of Tokyo) “Jordanian Broadcasting Strategy in the Changing Regional Media Landscape” |
- Commentators :
- Hassan Hammoud (Associate Professor, Lebanese American University)
- Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Ramzi Mabsout (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Maria Bou Zeid Farah (Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University)
- Observers :
- Massoud Daher (Advisor of JaCMES, Lebanese University)
- Pierre Azar (Advisor of JaCMES, University of Saint Joseph)
- Guita Hourani (Notre Dame University)
- Soniya Daher (Lebanese University)
- Manal Saad Khashan
- Masami Ishii (Embassy of Japan in Lebanon)
- Naoko Kuwahara (Kochi Junior College)
- Kodama Ohba (Sophia University)
- ILCAA staffs :
- Hidemitsu Kuroki
- Aiko Nishikida
