Policy in Perspective from The LBJ School of Public Affairs

Tag: Middle East Politics

Former Director of Israeli Mossad Interrupted by Protesters During UT Lecture

Post author By Jon Brandt
Post date October 22, 2014
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Meir Dagan, the former Director-General of the Israeli Mossad, gave a lecture at the LBJ School on October 14 that was ultimately remarkable not for its content, but rather the reaction it produced. Literally translated to “The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations”, the Mossad is the Israeli organization responsible for national intelligence collection and […]

Tags Israeli Mossad, Meir Dagan, Middle East Politics, Military Intelligence, Pro-Palestine Protest

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Sectarianism in the Middle East: Neither Inevitable nor Permanent

Post author By Jon Brandt
Post date October 15, 2014
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Dr. Makdisi lecture LBJ

The emergence of sectarianism in the Middle East is a modern historical problem. That was the message of Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History from Rice University, in his October 2 lecture at the LBJ School. Only by evaluating sectarianism as a complex historical development, Makdisi argues, can we hope to move beyond repeated failed […]

Tags Decolonization, Iraq, Middle East Conflicts, Middle East History, Middle East Politics, Sectarianism, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Syria, Ussama Makdisi