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'''The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies''' is an interdisciplinary education and research organization founded in 2001, devoted to the regional study of the [[Eastern Mediterranean]] within the greater [[Middle East]]. The Center is part of [[The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy]], at [[Tufts University]].<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name ="Clement 2012"/><ref name="Shadid 2002"/><ref name="About Fares 2015"/> Its aim is the study and understanding the heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century,<ref name="About Fares 2015"/> being at the crossroads between the academic and policy world.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/>
==Activities==
The founding director defined the goal of the center as the pursuit of a cross-regional and cross-cultural analysis,<ref name="About Fares 2015"/> fostering the encounter of a diversity of viewpoints, with the belief that a broad diversity of views serves as an effective means of conflict resolution.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name="About Fares 2015"/> The center aims to foster greater understanding of the Middle East to students, notably through studying relationships between the groups involved in Middle Eastern conflicts.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name ="Clement 2012"/><ref name="Shadid 2002"/><ref name="About Fares 2015"/>
Initially the regional focus was on [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], and [[Syria]], and the neighboring countries of [[Cyprus]], [[Egypt]], [[Greece]], [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Israel]], and [[Turkey]].<ref name="Newsletter 2002"/> Later on the focus was broadened to also include other countries in the greater Middle East and North Africa regions.<ref name="About Fares 2015"/>
The center hosts scholars conducting research and offering courses on the region.<ref name="Richinick 2011"/> Fares also serves as a forum, organizing events such as conferences,<ref name="Khouri 2007"/><ref name="Khouri 2010"/><ref name="Uwire 2006"/> for the discussion of policy issues from an international perspective, welcoming both for scholars within the school as well as reaching out to guest speakers.<ref name="About Fares 2015"/><ref name ="Schaeffer-Duffy 2010"/><ref name ="Fletcher Forum 2015"/> The center includes numerous events organized by the school's Mediterranean Club.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/>
The Center has served as the organizer of the Issam M. Fares Lecture series,<ref name ="Fletcher Forum 2003"/> a renowned forum endowed by the Fares' foundations since 1993 and attended by thousands of students.<ref name="AP 2011"/><ref name ="Schwartz 2004"/> Past notable speakers included former British Prime Ministers [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[Tony Blair]]; former President of France [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]];<ref name="About Fares 2015"/> former U.S. Secretaries of State [[James Baker]], [[Madeleine Albright]],<ref name="About Fares 2015"/> [[Colin Powell]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]; and former U.S. Presidents [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name ="Schwartz 2004"/><ref name="Risen 2001"/>
==History==
The Fares Center was established in 2001 with the financial support of [[Issam Fares|Issam M. Fares]], a Lebanese businessman, deputy prime minister of Lebanon, Tufts trustee emeritus, and a member of Tufts’ International Board of Overseers and the Board of Overseers for Arts & Sciences.<ref name="About Fares 2015"/><ref name ="Schwartz 2004"/><ref name="Risen 2001"/> The dedication of the Center took place in March 2002, with President [[Bill Clinton]] speaking at the event.<ref name="AP 2011"/>
[[Leila Fawaz]] was the founding director of the Center, from 2001 to 2012. [[Nadim Shehadi]] succeeded her taking over in 2015.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/> Before [[Vali Nasr]] became dean of the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 2012, he held the position of associate director at the Fares Center.<ref name="Fletcher 2012"/><ref name="O'Shea 2012"/>
It was reported in 2002 that the Center had acquired a ceramic photo mural from the Arab American female artist [[Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi]]. The artwork is displayed by the entrance of the center.<ref name="Temin 2002"/>
==Directors==
===Leila Fawaz (2001–2012)===
The founding director of the Center was [[Leila Fawaz]], who remained in that position until 2012.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/> Fawaz was born in Sudan to Greek-Orthodox Lebanese parents and raised in Lebanon. She took two degrees at the [[American University of Beirut]] between 1967 and 1968 and pursued graduate studies in history at Harvard between 1972 and 1979.<ref name="Tribune 2011"/><ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/>
She became a member of the Tufts faculty in 1979, and became a full professor in 1994. She chaired the History Department from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2001, she served as dean of arts and humanities and as associate dean of the faculty.<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/> At Tufts Fawaz became the Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, where she also held appointments as professor of diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and as professor of history.<ref name="Tribune 2011"/><ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/><ref name="WIA 2012"/><ref name="Abraham 2006"/>
From 1990 to 1994 she Fawaz was the editor-in-chief of ''[[The International Journal of Middle East Studies]]'', there she advanced the notion of conducting analytical and comparative research, with an international and cross-disciplinary approach.<ref name ="Tucker 2008"/> She bemoaned the overspecialization within the field, the neglect of attention to humanities/arts and, uninteresting writing, and linked these problems to Middle East studies as a whole, because researchers were "still a long way from being pathfinders in the world of scholarship generally."<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/><ref name="WIA 2012"/><ref name ="Tucker 2008"/>
Fawaz also served on the editorial board of ''[[The American Historical Review]]''.<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/> A former president of the [[Middle East Studies Association of North America]], a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]],  and a member of the Comité Scientifique of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme at the Université de Provence.<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/> Fawaz served on the [[Harvard Board of Overseers|board of overseers of Harvard University]] from 1996 to 2012.<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011"/><ref name="WIA 2012"/>
In 2012 she was named a "chevalier" in the French National Order of the [[Legion of Honour|Legion of Honor]]. She was honored for her "exemplary personal commitment to French-American relations" and for her efforts to promote French academic research and thought at prestigious American universities."<ref name="WIA 2012"/>
===Nadim Shehadi (2015–2018)===
In 2015 [[Nadim Shehadi]] was appointed the second director of the Fares Center.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name="Murdock 2015"/><ref name="Yeranian 2015"/> Shehadi trained as an economist with an interest in the history of economic thought.<ref name="Chatham 2015"/> He served as the director of Lebanese studies at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], where he was director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies from 1986 to 2005,<ref name="Chatham 2015"/> and worked for the [[European Union]] writing foreign policy and creating strategies for relations with the Middle East and North Africa. At the time of his appointment, Shehadi stated his intent to continue to serve as an associate fellow of the London-based think tank [[Chatham House]], where he is the director of a program focused on Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/><ref name="Murdock 2015"/><ref name="Knutsen 2015"/>
At the time of Shehadi's appointment, Fletcher's Academic Dean Ian Johnstone stated that Shehadi's experience directing research programs, working as a policymaker and advisor, and as a commentator for various media outlets, made him a good choice for the role, adding that “Fletcher prides itself on multidisciplinary research, and the Fares Center is a microcosm for that”.<ref name="Pomerance 2015"/>
===Ibrahim Warde (2018–2020)===
[[Ibrahim Warde]] served as Interim Director of the Fares Center from 2018 to 2020. Warde is professor of international business at The Fletcher School and has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He was a Carnegie scholar focusing on informal finance in the Islamic World and is a regular contributor to [[Le Monde Diplomatique]].
As Interim Director of Fares, Warde brought numerous high profile speakers to Fletcher including His Excellency [[Yusuf Kalla]], [[Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco]], and President and CEO of Oxfam America Abby Maxman. Warde currently serves on the Academic Committee of the Fares Center, and is an affiliated faculty.
=== Nadim N. Rouhana (since 2020)===
[[Nadim Rouhana]] was appointed third director of the Fares Center in September 2020 under Fletcher Dean [[Rachel Kyte]]. Rouhana is professor of international affairs and conflict studies and Director of the Program on International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at The Fletcher School.
Dr. Rouhana's research includes work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multi-ethnic states, and settler colonialism. His most recent books include the co-edited volume "When Politics Are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism" (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and the edited volume "Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State" (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Dr. Rouhana is also an affiliate faculty at the Harvard Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and founding director at the Mada al-Carmel–Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa.
==Faculty Associated with the Center==
* [[Leila Fawaz]]
* [[Vali Nasr]]
* [[Ibrahim Warde]]
* [[Beatrice Forbes Manz]]
==Select Publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book  |first=Ibrahim |last= Warde |title= The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258150 |date=2007 |publisher= [[University of California Press]] |isbn= 9780520253704 }}
*{{cite book |first=Vali |last=Nasr  | author-link=Vali Nasr |title=The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future  |date=April 17, 2007 |publisher= [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location= New York |isbn=978-0393329681 }}
*{{cite book |editor1-first=Eva R. |editor1-last= Hoffman  |title=Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean |date=April 23, 2007 |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1405120722 }}
*{{cite book |editor1-first=Camille |editor1-last= Mansour | editor2-first= Leila |editor2-last= Fawaz |title=Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi  |date= May 15, 2009|publisher= [[The American University in Cairo Press]] |isbn=978-9774162473  }}
*{{cite book |first=Beatrice Forbes |last= Manz |title=Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran |url= http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/power-politics-and-religion-timurid-iran|date= June 2010 |publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=9780521153461 }}
*{{cite book |first=Vali |last=Nasr  | author-link=Vali Nasr |title=The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism |date= June 8, 2010|publisher= [[Council on Foreign Relations]] Books |isbn=978-1416589693 }}
*{{cite book |first=Leila Tarazi |last= Fawaz |title=A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War |date=November 17, 2014 |publisher= [[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0674735491 }}
===Lighting the path to understanding series===
The Fares Center has organized an annual conference after which it has compiled its participants' contributions, and published a report within the series ''Lighting the path to understanding''. Below is a list of these publications.
*{{cite journal |date=2010 |title= Engaging the Middle East: After the Cairo Speech |journal=Occasional Paper |volume=7 |publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= http://book.stanford.edu/view/9393191 |oclc=759440780}}<ref name="Publications 2012"/>
*{{cite journal |first1=Rami G. |last1=Khouri |author-link1=Rami George Khouri |date=2010 |title=New and Old Elements of Power and Politics in the Middle East |journal=Occasional Paper |volume=6 |publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/774296 |oclc=727121352 }}
*{{cite journal |date=2009 |title=Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration: Iran and the Middle East |journal=Occasional Paper |volume= 5|publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url=http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:UP068.001.001.00005.00002  |oclc=469772102}}
*{{cite journal |date=2008 |title=The United States and the Middle East: What Comes Next After Iraq |journal=Occasional Paper |volume=4 |publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:UP068.001.001.00004.00002 |oclc=286970793}}
*{{cite journal |date= 2007|title=The "War On Terrorism": Where Do We Stand? |journal=Occasional Paper |volume=3 |publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:UP068.001.001.00003.00002 |oclc=654959664}}
*{{cite journal |date=2006 |title=Democratizing The Middle East? |journal=Occasional Paper |volume= 2|publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:UP068.001.001.00002.00002 |oclc=85821909 }}
*{{cite journal |date= 2004|title=Engaging In Dialogue on U.S. Foreign Policy |journal=Occasional Paper |volume=1 |publisher= The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies |url= http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:UP068.001.001.00001.00002 |oclc=62757361 }}
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<ref name="Harvard Gazette 2011">{{cite news |title= Fawaz, Shapiro to lead Harvard Overseers for 2011-12|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/fawaz-shapiro-to-lead-harvard-overseers-for-2011-12/ |newspaper= [[Harvard Gazette]]|date=Feb 17, 2011 |accessdate= Jun 8, 2015  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608211358/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/fawaz-shapiro-to-lead-harvard-overseers-for-2011-12/ |archive-date= June 8, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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<ref name="Publications 2012">{{cite web | url=http://farescenter.tufts.edu/publications/  |title=Publications | date= 2012 | publisher= [[Tufts University]] | location= Medford, MA | accessdate= Jun 15, 2015  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140529135114/http://farescenter.tufts.edu/publications/ | archive-date=May 29, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="Newsletter 2002">{{cite journal |date= Fall 2002|title= Mission Statement |journal= PHAROS - the Newsletter of Fares Center at Tufts University |volume=1 |pages=12 |publisher=The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies  | location= Medford, MA | url=http://farescenter.tufts.edu/about|accessdate= Jun 8, 2015  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100610004400/http://farescenter.tufts.edu/publications/pharos/fall02.pdf | archive-date=June 10, 2010  |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name ="Clement 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Clement |first1= Richard W. |date= 2012|title=The Mediterranean: What, Why, and How |journal= Mediterranean Studies |volume= 20|issue= 1|pages=114–120 |publisher= [[Penn State University Press]] |doi=10.5325/mediterraneanstu.20.1.0114 |jstor= 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.20.1.0114|url= https://muse.jhu.edu/article/477921 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Uwire 2006">{{cite news |title= Tufts U.: Tufts U. prof opens Middle East conference|newspaper= [[UWIRE|U-Wire]]|location=USA |date=January 30, 2006 }}</ref>
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