hi everyone, please find below your reading list for Friday. There was one mistake on the Reading page that i corrected (for this week, you need to read chapter 3 from my book, on the Private Sector, not Chapter 4, on Networks). if you already read chapter 4 that's good, you'll know why on Friday. I know some of you have signed up to do chapters using the first post. can you please redo your comment on this post to avoid confusion? thanks Finally, as promised, i have included the paper options under the Assignment page. check them out and feel free to have an internal discussion before we can make a decision in class on friday. by the way, i think we had a tremendous class on Friday, though i want us to engage the arguments more and begin to speak like syria experts now that you have amassed a critical amount of readings. see you soon. b Week 6: Economic Reform, the Private Sector, and State-Business Relations 1. Alan Richards and John Waterbury, Chapter 7, “The Emergence of the Public Sector,” Chapter 8, “Contradictions of State-Led Growth,” in A Political Economy of the Middle East (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996). [PDF] 2. Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires," MERIP 210 (29,1) Spring 99:28 [PDF] and Timothy Mitchell, "America's Egypt: Discourse of the Development Industry," 169 (F21, 2) Mar-Apr 91:18 [PDF] 3. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 3, in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text]
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Nazir
2/18/2013 03:34:59 am
if not already taken, I can take Timothy Mitchell, "America's Egypt: Discourse of the Development Industry".
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Sarah Mousa
2/18/2013 08:09:14 am
I had already volunteered to present this reading (Timothy Mitchell, "America's Egypt: Discourse of the Development Industry")
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Wadah
2/18/2013 04:29:37 am
If this is not already taken, I'd like to volunteer for Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires." Please let me know if you've already signed up for this as soon as you can.
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Mustafa Enes Esen
2/18/2013 05:42:41 am
I will present on Alan Richards and John Waterbury, Chapter 7, “The Emergence of the Public Sector,”
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Nazir Harb
2/20/2013 03:20:06 am
OK, Sarah has the Mitchell piece - I can do Chapter 8, “Contradictions of State-Led Growth.”
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Wadah
2/20/2013 03:31:47 am
I, too, have Friday's class cancelled. We are meeting on Sunday. Can others - and Bassam too, please confirm.
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bassam
2/20/2013 01:25:56 pm
yes! we are meeting sunday at 3 pm. not Friday. if you all want, we can meet at Tombs at 2pm, eat, then head to class.or vice versa.
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Wadah
2/21/2013 06:56:01 am
I prefer we eat after class. I might not be able to make it at 2, but if others want to eat first, that'll be fine too. I won't make it and that's ok.
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sally
2/21/2013 05:44:35 am
Ok, so I assume that Prof. Haddad reading is left? I can take it :) and sunday at any venue is fine.
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Bailey
2/22/2013 01:49:36 am
Thank you all for confirming that class is on Sunday at 3pm. I would prefer to eat after class given the time, but I can do either and am happy with whatever the class decides. I look forward to seeing everyone on Sunday!
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bassam
2/22/2013 02:02:34 am
ok, let's eat after class. more efficient in any case. at 5 pm, we walk to tombs! hope this is cool for everyone.
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AuthorBassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012). Archives
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