Bassam Haddad is the Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University...
We are a monthly discussion composed of George Mason faculty and students. We are open to anyone interested in participating in an eclectic and serious discussion of contemporary problems under the broad rubric of political economy. All events for the 2020-21 academic year will be held by Zoom. Matt...
When Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr. witnessed an act of bullying in high school, he reported the incident to his civil rights activist mother, expecting her to take swift action. Instead, she turned his query around: “What are you going to do?" Forman posed that same question to abou...