Bouthaina Shaaban - Panels & Lectures

Presentations & Lectures:

§ The Non-Aligned Movement on the Advancement of Women Conference, Putrajaya, Malaysia, May 7-10, 2005

§ "Arab World in 2020," Arab Strategy Forum, Dubai, December 13-15, 2004.

§ "Women Defending Peace, Women defending Peace conference, Geneva, Switzerland, November 22-24, 2004.

§ "The Role of Expatriates," Book's Exhibition in Beirut, December 3^rd, 2004.

§ "10 years after Beijing, A Call for Peace," Arab Regional Conference, Beirut, July 9^th, 2004.

§ "Shedding Light on the Character of the Leader Hafez Al Asad," Ba'alabak, Lebanon, August 6^th, 2004

§ "The Arab Issue and the Arabic Media,” Damascus, Al Asad Library, March 25^th, 2004

§ "Woman's Role in Peace and War," The Summit of Arab First Ladies, Beirut, Lebanon, 2004.

§ "Woman And Policy," Istanbul conference, Turkey, 25-28 February, 2004

§ "Media Terminology and Arab Right,” Tripoli, Rashid Karami International Exposition, Lebanon, February, 21^st, 2004.

§ "Arab Women in the Twenty First Century," Damascus, Cultural Center, May 1999

§ "Violence Against Women," Damascus, Cultural Center, February 1999

§ "The Image of Arab Women in Western Media," Women's Club, Sharja, United Arab Emirates, November 1998

§ "Translation and Cultures," Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge University, England, June 1998.

§ "Woman's Rights are Human Rights," Damascus, March 1998.

§ "Women in the MENA Region," The World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 1998

§ "The Age of Translation," Jesuit University, Beirut, October 1997

§ "Shelley and Chartists," International Conference on Shelley, The New York Public Library and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 20-23 May 1992

§ "Women as Pioneer in the Arab Novel," an International conference on the Arab Novel, Gabes, Tunisia, 10-12 December 1993

§ "The 40^th International Conference for the Federation International Translator," Brighton, England, 6-13 August 1993

§ "The Center and Margin in Arab Women's Criticism," at a Panel on the Center and Margin in Arab Culture, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sfax University, Tunisia, 15-17 April 1993

§ "Women and War in the Middle East," Perspectives on 1967 War, International Studies Week, Duke University, November 4^th, 1992

§ " Women Novel, Male Criticism," a conference on Women's Creative Writings in the Arab World, Fez, Morocco, 9-12 April 1992

§ "Women and Islam," a Symposium, Tehran Iran, February 12^th, 1992

§ "Arab Women's Literary and Political Performance in the Twentieth Century," A Challenges Conference, Berlin University, November 28-1December 1991

§ "My Identity as an Arab Women," UCLA, 3-4 May 1991

§ "Women's Power," Women's Language Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19 April 1991

§ "The Role of Arab Women in War and Peace: Consequences of the Gulf Crisis," Georgetown University, 17-18 April 1991

§ "The Role of Arab Women in War and Peace" Christopher Newport College and Old Dominion University, 2-5 March 1991

§ "Women and the Political System in Syria," Old Dominion University, 4 March 1991

§ "Arab Women as the Symbol and Prism of Arab Culture," Duke University, January 1991

§ "Gender and Education in the Arab World," a discussant, MESA, San Antonio, 12-14 November 1990

§ "Arab Women in the Educational and Political System," Aleppo University, July 1990 (to a group of American scholars Visiting Syria within the program of the National Council on US Arab Relations).

§ "Feminism in the Arab World: Problems and Horizons," Al-Assad Library Damascus, Syria, October 1988

§ "The Position of Women in al-Twariq Tribe in the Southern Algerian Sahara," Al-Assad Library October 1987.

§ "Structuralism and Romantic Poetry," Constantine University, Algeria, Conference on Structuralism, January 1987

§ "Shelley and Ernest Jones," Yarmouk University, Jordan, conference on Comparative Literature November 1986

§ "Shelley in the Chartist's Eyes," Shelley Conference, Britain, 1980