our first speaker will be osama and the sec will be james collins who teach ates and early modern french history at georgetown university. hour for a third speaker will be assam haddad from the department of international affairs at george mason university. he is also a visiting professor at georgetown university. finally, myself, i teach arabic at georgetown university. i will be the last speaker. >> thanks, everyone, for attending. i am glad to speak in tandem with my colleague, jim collins. somewhere between the ousting of ben ali on january 14th and egypt and january 25th, he and i initiated a conversation about how he has a historian of early modern europe and i -- >> get the microphone. >> would situate the tunisian and egyptian protests. historically and theoretical as well as contractual terms. these exchanges were somewhat complicated by the pace and magnitude of the events and it is beyond question the recent developments in tunisia and egypt marked a watershed in the history of the two countries with fundamental implications for the political landscape of the region as a whole

our second speaker is james collins, who teaches french history, also here at georgetown university. our third speaker will be director of the middle east studies program and professor in the department of public and international affairs at george mason university. he is also a visiting professor here at georgetown university. and finally, myself, elliott cola, i teach arabic at georgetown university. i will be the last speaker. please, professor. the protests, historically and comprehend them in theoretical. our exchanges were somewhat complicated by the pace and the magnitude of the events and it is beyond question the recent developments in tunisia implications for the political landscape of the region as a whole and by extension foreign relations with the world at large. from the perspective of historians of africa, the repeated consensus that the region is now fundamentally transformed is more a thesis than it is a verdict. and the thesis in question is whether the theoretical frameworks with which historians analyzed social movement in the region are able to interpret and expl

our second speaker is james collins who teaches early modern french history, also here at georgetown university. our third speaker will be the director of the middle east studies program and a professor in the department of public and international affairs at george mason university. he is also a visiting professor here at georgetown university. and, finally, myself, eliott. i teach arabic here at georgetown university. i will be the last speaker. so please, professor. >> thank you, everyone, for attending. and i'm very glad to be able to speak in tandem with my colleague, jim collins, tonight, because somewhere between the ousting of tunisia on january 14 and the beginning of the democrat stations -- demonstrations in egypt on january 25, he and i had initiated a conversation by email about how we, he as a historian of early modern europe and i -- >> speak into the microphone. we cannot hear you. >> ok. and i would situate the protests. historically and comprehend them in theoretical as well as -- [inaudible] terms. now obviously our exchanges were somewhat complicated by the pace a

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