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Iran, Iran, Egypt and the U.S. Potential Partners in a New Middle East? Prospects for peace in the Middle East can seem hopeless. But the reason that region is so torn by violence and hatred is that outside powers including the US are pursuing outdated policies. If we break away from the failed paradigms of the past and free ourselves from the paralyzing grip of emotion, we can turn the Middle East into a producer of security rather than an exporter of insecurity.

Stephen Kinzer will talk about the true history of US-Iran and US-Mideast relations, and discuss future prospects. Kinzer is is an award-winning foreign correspondent, including more than 20 years writing for The New York Times, who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. Kinzer, currently Visiting Professor of International Relations at Boston University, is author of Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future; Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq,and All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. Mahsa Rouhi will start the discussion period with questions before turning the discussion period over to the audience. She is a Nuclear Security predoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard's Kennedy School, Ph.D. candidate in international relations at University of Cambridge, UK, and a research associate at the MIT’s Center for International Studies. She is currently researching and writing on Iran's foreign and security policymaking, with a special focus on Iran's nuclear-related policymaking.

Wednesday February 16 7pm Suffolk University 120 Tremont St, Boston 4th Floor Faculty Meeting Room Park Street T

Cosponsored by Democratic Socialists of America and the Suffolk University Government Department and International Law Concentration