Portland State University Middle East Studies Center Lecture Series

Nohad A. Toulan is Dean Emeritus of Portland State University's College of Urban & Public Affairs and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the School of Urban Studies & Planning, and is an internationally recognized urban planner who contributed extensively to the development of major urban and regional plans in the U.S., the Middle East, North and West Africa. Dr. Toulan has been an adviser to the United Nations Development Program and to local and foreign governments on development issues. A native of Cairo and Alexandria, Dr. Toulan recently visited Egypt to witness firsthand the country's "Second Revolution." In this talk, Dr. Toulan provides an update on the political and economic conditions in post-Mubarak Egypt. He also reports on the demands of the movement that overthrew the government and what changes the interim government has made in response to those demands since Mubarak's departure. This lecture was presented by the Portland State University Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning, the Center for Turkish Studies, the International Studies Program, the Middle East Studies Center, and the Portland Center for Public Humanities.

Vangelis Kechriotis is Assistant to the Chair in Bogazici University Department of History. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden. His research interests include late Ottoman political and cultural history, Christians and Jewish communities, nationalism, the Balkans, port-cities, imperial ideology. This lecture was presented by the Portland State University Centers for Hellenic, Middle East and Turkish Studies and the Departments of History and World Languages & Literatures.

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Laura Robson speaks at a workshop for educators which focused on the use of hip hop music and art to teach about social and political protest in the Occupied Palestinian Territories