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100 Days of Trump: America, the Middle East and Beyond
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Wed, May 7, 2025
1 PM – 2 PM (GMT+3)
The Sullivan Lounge
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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Join us for the upcoming CASAR Public Lecture
100 Days of Trump: America, the Middle East and Beyond
News about Trump’s internal and external policies — from USAID cuts, Chinese and Canadian tariffs and DEI revocations to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the case of Iran, the U.S. national economic emergency, ICE arrests and more — continues to break daily. The effects are being felt not only in the United States but across the globe. What are the repercussions so far? Join us as our speakers explore the impacts on the U.S., the Middle East and beyond from different perspectives.
Speakers:
Sean Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Alaa El Hadidi
Adjunct Faculty, CASAR
Former Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
Moderator:
Mark Deets
Assistant Professor and Director, CASAR
No prior registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.
Speakers
Sean Lee
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
The American University in Cairo
Sean Lee is an assistant professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Previously, he was a Doctoral Fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut and a research affiliate with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. His work focuses on minority communities during times of conflict, in particular in Lebanon and Syria. He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Germany, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mark Deets
Assistant Professor and Director of Prince AlWaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz AlSaud Center for American Studies
The American University in Cairo
Deets is an assistant professor and director of the Prince AlWaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz AlSaud Center for American Studies. Deets is a social and cultural historian of modern Africa. His research emerges from his diplomatic experience in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Deets also serves as francophone book review editor for the Journal of West African History.
Alaa El Hadidi
Adjunct Faculty
The American University in Cairo