Massad to speak at Rice’s Baker Institute

Massad to speak at Rice’s Baker Institute

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Columbia University’s Joseph Massad, associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history, will speak at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at  6:30 p.m. Nov. 1. A reception will follow.
 

JOSEPH MASSAD

The lecture, titled “Semitism and the Palestinians,” is part of the lecture series “The Arab World: History, Politics and Culture.”
 
Massad is of Palestinian descent and has written numerous books and articles on the Middle East, including “Desiring Arabs” (2007), “The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians” (2006) and “Colonial Effects: the Making of National Identity in Jordan” (2001).
 
The event is sponsored by Rice’s Department of History, the Baker Institute, the Arab American Educational Foundation Lecture Endowment and the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance.
 
The event will be held in James A. Baker III Hall’s Kelly International Conference Facility.
 
Faculty, staff and students who wish to attend should contact Ussama Makdisi at 713-348-2561 or makdisi@rice.edu or go to http://www.history.rice.edu/calendar.cfm.