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Center for Middle Eastern Studies
El Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the Universidad Austral (NEMOIt is a research space in Political Science and International Relations, created in October 2018 at the School of Politics, Government and International Relations of the Faculty of Law. It promotes scholarly knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa region from different perspectives: its actors, domestic issues, regional and global links, its economic resources, current situations and relations with Latin America, particularly with Argentina.
NEMO fulfills its mission by promoting research activities, training students and young graduates, and fostering the continuous training of professionals through master classes, discussion of texts and films, participation in congresses, preparation of publications, and dissemination of knowledge, seeking to serve as a bridge of understanding and fraternity between the Middle East and Latin America.
Authorities
Honorary Director
Dr. Alfonso Santiago
Associate Investigators
Dr. Florencia Silveira
Lines of investigation: Geopolitics, geostrategy and Middle Eastern security; Terrorism and insurgencies; Armed conflicts and International Humanitarian Law.
Young researchers
- Emanuel Ojeda
Student of the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations - Tobias Yapur Ali
Student of the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations
- Alma Varone Baravalle
Law student
- Facundo Suárez
International Relations student
- Juan Francisco Magni
International Relations student
CONTENTS
- Presentation of the Middle Eastern Studies Center
- Foreword(Said Chaya)
- The Human Rights-Based Foreign Policy of Mauricio Macri's Government towards the Middle East (Isabella Hanna-Fabre)
- The Syria program: Argentina's humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis.(María José Romani Kuri)
- An approach to the relationship between the Argentine Republic and the State of Israel | 2015 – 2019(Juan Szuldman)
- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Argentina during the Macri administration.(Isabella Tubelli)
CONTENTS
- page 2. Prologue (by Said Chaya).
- page 6Bashar al-Assad, the undisputed savior.
Reality or fiction? (Julia Mendoza and Lucía Rizzi). - page 28Feminism in Egypt. The legacy of Huda Sha'arawi (Rocío Coria).
- page 50Ten years after the Arab Spring: Saudi Arabia and women's rights (Isabella Tubelli Martínez).
- page 66The transition of the Arab Republic of Egypt towards democracy: an analysis of the 2012 presidential elections through the theory of Robert Alan Dahl (Sofia Scally).
- page 92The dawn of the Islamic State (Santiago Vera García).
Chaya, S. (2023). “Michel Aoun and Lebanese presidentialism: notes on a legacy.” In “And now where do we go?: new challenges in the Middle East.” National University of La Plata.
CONTENTS
- First part. Between the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Versailles system (page 1).
- Second part. The emergence of nation-states (page 5).
- Third part. Arabism in expansion (page 9).
- Fourth part. Changing times and paradigm shifts (page 15).
- Fifth part. Islam as a political catalyst (page 19).
- Bibliography. 24 page.
- Map appendix. 25 page.
Middle Eastern Studies Program
ContactSaid Chaya (schaya@austral.edu.ar)
