Indefinite suspension

As per the decision taken at the Centre meeting held on 30 August 2010, this blog stands suspended indefinitely.

Seminar of Prof M D Nalapat

Pictures taken during the Seminar of Prof. M D Nalapat on 6 May 2010 during his talk on India and the Gulf.

Photo courtesy:

Anjani Kumar Singh

India and the Gulf

Centre for West Asian Studies
School of International Studies

Prof. M D Nalapat

Manipal University

Speaks
On

India and the Gulf: Personal Impressions

Date: 6 May 2010, THURSDAY

VENUE: ROOM No. 001, SIS

TIME: 11.00 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Viva Voce 10 May 2010

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES,

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Ph D Viva Notice

The Ph D viva-voce examination of Mr. Asif Shuja, a student of the Centre is scheduled for Monday 10 May 2010 at 11.00 AM in room 356, SIS. As per the decision of the CASR all faculty members and students of the Centre/School are invited to attend. The title of the thesis is “Power Struggle between Reformists and Conservatives in Iran: The Case Study of Khatami Period”, and was supervised by Prof. P C Jain.

Viva Voce 3 May 2010

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES,

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Ph D Viva Notice

The Ph D viva-voce examination of Ms. Mahnaz Zahrirnejad, a student of the Centre is scheduled for Monday 3 May 2010 at 11.00 am in room 356, SIS. As per the decision of the CASR all faculty members and students of the Centre/School are invited to attend. The title of the thesis is “Iran’s energy policy towards China and India: A comparative study, 1979-2007”, and was supervised by Prof. Girijesh Pant.

Pre-Ph D submission, 3 May 2010

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Pre- Ph.D. Submission Presentation

Rakesh Kumar Ranjan

On

Impact of French Education on Social Transformation in the Maghreb Region

3 May 2010, Monday

Venue : Room No.001, SIS

Time: 2.30 P.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

BESA

Photos taken during the interaction with Professors Efraim Inbar and Hillel Frisch of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies on 15 April 2010.

Photo courtesy: Mushtaq Hussain

Informal interaction with

Seminar of Dr. WAIEL AWWAD

Pictures taken during the Seminar of Dr. Waiel Awwad on 15 April 2010.
Photo courtesy: Anjani Kumar Singh

Photos taken during the Seminar on Politics and Identity: Language, Religion and Gender in West Asia organized by the students of the Centre on 7 April 2010.
Photo courtesy: Mustaq Hussain

Student Seminar on

Seminar, 15 April 2010

Centre for West Asian Studies
School of International Studies



Dr. WAIEL AWWAD

South Asia Bureau Chief, Alarabiya TV Channel,

Speaks
On

Bashar al-Assad:

Popular Choice for a Strategist

Date: 15 April 2010, THURSDAY

VENUE: ROOM No. 203, SIS

TIME: 11.00 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Synopsis Presentation 12 April 2010

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Ph.D. Synopsis Presentation

Chitra N

On

Gulf Migration and its impact on the Tamil Nadu

12 April 2010, Monday

Venue : Room No.001, SIS

Time: 2.30 P.M

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Student Seminar, 7 April 2010

Students of the Center for West Asian Studies
School of International Studies
Invite all for a Student Seminar

On

Politics and Identity:

Language, Religion and Gender in West Asia


Date: 7 April 2010, Wednesday Venue: Room No. 203, SIS

Welcome address Sumaiyh Ahmed, CWAS
Concept note Abdul Rahman Ansari, CWAS

Session I: 2:30-4.00 p.m.

Chair: Honey J. A, CCULAS
Beryl Anand, CWAS, Religious Minorities in Iranian Politics
Discussant: Laselie Keerthi Kumar S. M, CES

Zubair Ahmed, CWAS, Shias in the Politics of Lebanon
Discussant: Atul Hari Mishra, CIPOD

Tea Break: 4.00-4.30 p.m.

Session II: 4:30-6.00 p.m.

Chair: Abhey Kumar, CRCAS
Priyamvada Sawant, Bint el Nil and the Egyptian Feminist Movement
Discussant: R. Ramasubramanium, CSCSECWPS

Ayyoob Thayyil, Arabic Media and Arab Nationalism
Discussant: Anjani Kumar Singh, CWAS

Vote of thanks: Jaikhlong Basumatary, CWAS

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies
cordially invites to a talk

by

Ambassador Zikrur Rehman

Director, India-Arab Cultural Centre
On

Hamas in Palestinian equation

Date: 1 April 2010, Thursday
VENUE: ROOM No. 203, SIS
TIME: 11.00 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Synopsis presentation

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Ph.D. Synopsis Presentation

Rajeevan Kunnath
On Gulf Migration and its impact on the Mappila Muslims of Kerala

Date: 29 March 2010, Monday

Venue : Room No.203, SIS

Time: 2.30 P.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Synopsis presentation

Centre for West Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Ph.D. Synopsis Presentation

by

Kumar Gaurav

on

Political reforms in the Arab world: A case study of Jordan, 1989-2007

Date: 22 March 2010, Monday

Venue : Room No.001, SIS

Time: 2.30 P.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Thursday Seminar, 18 March 2010

Cancelled due to Struke

Centre for West Asian Studies

(CWAS)

School of International Studies

Dr. WAIEL AWWAD

South Asia Bureau Chief, Alarabiya TV Channel,

Speaks

on

Bashar al-Assad:
Popular Choice for a Strategist

Date: 18 March 2010, Thursday

Venue: No. 001, SIS

Time: 11.00 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Synopsis presentation

Centre for West Asian Studies
School of International Studies




Ph.D. Synopsis Presentation



Anjani Kumar Singh


On

A Study of Actors, Ideas and Territory in the Jerusalem Question





15 March 2010, Monday
Venue : Room No.001, SIS
Time: 2.30 P.M.


All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator
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Arabic classes

The Arabic language classes at the Centre will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9.00 to 10.00 AM. Until better facilities are available, classes will be held in room 356. The classes will begin on 11 March 2010.

Those interested may contact, Md. Muddassir Quamar: Email: muddassir.2005@gmail.com

Seminar 11 March 2010

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES

(CWAS)

Ambassador Ishrat Aziz

speaks

on

PM’s Visit to Saudi Arabia:

A Case of convergence of Interests

Date: 11 March 2010, Thursday

Venue : Room No.001, SIS

Time: 11 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Arabic Classes

Students who are interested in learning Arabic language can meet on Monday 8 March 2010, in Room No. 356 at 4.15 PM. Class timings and other details would be worked out during that meeting.

India's Israel Policy

In July 2010, the Columbia University Press is publishing India's Israel Policy by P R Kumaraswamy. For more details please click here

Seminar: Obama & Iran

Centre for West Asian Studies

(CWAS)

School of International Studies

In collaboration with

Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies

Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra

(CCULAS)

speaks

on

Obama & Iran:

No Magic Carpets

Date: 25 February 2010, Thursday

Time: 11.00 AM

Venue: 001 SIS

All are Welcome

Seminar Coordinator

Anjani Kumar Singh

On 17 February 2010 Anjani Kumar Singh did an extempore presentation on the Question of Jerusalem at the National Conference on the Ideological Trends in West Asia organized by the Aligarh Muslim University.

Photo courtesy: Ms. Asma Khanam, AMU.

THE FERTILE CRESCENT, GREAT POWERS AND INDIA, Feb 2010

THE FERTILE CRESCENT, GREAT POWERS AND INDIA, Feb 2010

Photo Courtesy: Sumant Kumar

Lunchon on 14 February 2010 Pics 2

Photo courtesy, Maheeka Nanda

Lunchon on Sunday 14 February

Pictures from the Lunchon on Sunday 14 February 2010. Pictures courtesty N Alvite

GSP Conference

An international conference on PEOPLE, CULTURE AND GOODS IN MOTION: INDIA-ARAB MARITIME HISTORICAL RELATIONS, is being organized by Gulf Studies Programme of the Centre for West Asian Studies during 3-4 March 2010. For details please contact Prof. A K Pasha

Syed Mohammad Raghib

I am Syed Mohammad Raghib doing M.Phil 2nd semester. I am a graduate in History from Magadh University Bodh Gaya and i completed my master in Persian from JNU in 2008. My area of interest of research is Iran and Gulf countries and role of media. Email

Centre colleagues

Centre colleagues in a lighter mood

Photo courtesy: Prof. A K Pasha

Dr Aswini Mohapatra could not make it.

Ph D Synopsis Presentation 15 Feb

Ph D synopsis presentation

(rescheduled)

by

Priyamvada A Sawant

on

British India’s Policy towards the Persian Gulf with Special Reference to Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar

Date: 15 February 2010, Monday

Venue: Room 203, SIS

Time: 2.30 PM

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Arabic Classes

With the help of four students of the Centre, namely Sumaiyah Ahmed, Ayyoob Thayyil, Muddassir Quamar and Lakshmi Priya, we are planning to start Arabic languge teaching for the students and faculty members of the Centre. Class timings and other details are being worked out. Since this is done informally, there will be a nominal fee towards paying honorium to the language teachers.

If you wish to join, please inform "Mustaq Hussain"mustaqhussian@gmail.com

Fertile Crescent, Great Powers and India

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES

invites you to
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
On
THE FERTILE CRESCENT, GREAT POWERS AND INDIA
09-11 February 2010

Venue Room 203, SIS

Md Muddassir Quamar

A serious student of Arabic, Md Muddassir Quamar joined the CWAS in July 2009. To access his personal blog please click here.

Email:

Seminar photos, 4 Feb 2010

Photos taken during the Seminar of Ms. Shebonti Roy Dadwal on 4 Feb 2010. They were taken by Mustaq Hussain.

Pre-Ph D Presentation

Pre-Ph.D. Presentation

by

Jaffar Ali Khan

on

Iranian students in India: A Sociological Study


Date : 8 February 2010, Monday

Time 2.30 PM
Venue : 203, SIS

All Are Welcome

Seminar Coordinator

Seminar Summary, Ms. Shebonti Roy Dadwal

Thursday Seminar Summary
Speaker: Ms. Shebonti Roy Dadwal, 4 February 2010
The West Asian region has become synonymous with energy resources whose usage is intrinsically linked with the issue of climate change. Countries like Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and Bahrain subscribe to green friendly projects like producing renewable energy. The politics of climate change in the aftermath of Copenhagen summit has affected the energy-rich and energy-dependence states of West Asia at two levels, domestic and international. Domestically, states such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran have shown an inclination towards renewable energy sources to meet the domestic demands of electricity. This serves two purposes; firstly, it helps these states to reduce their carbon emissions and secondly it helps them to divert higher percentage of their petroleum production for exports and revenue generation to support their welfare programmes. Internationally, these states are increasingly dependent on the high end technology and as the premium on conventional production increase due to politics of climate change these countries would have to seek international collaboration for higher technology. Additionally these states are also keen to regulate petroleum prices in such a way that other energy options do not become competitive in the market.

Summary by Ayem Tsupokyemla and Anjani Kumar Singh

Syed Saif Shahin

Syed Saif Shahin is a first year M Phil and he has an MA in Online Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has worked for various print, broadcast and online news organizations including BBC Online, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Mail Today, TV Today, Qatar Tribune and Oman Tribune. His writings have appeared in Asia Times Online and British Journalism Review. He was a delegate at the Brookings Institution’s US-Islamic World Conference, Doha in February 2008. He writes on South Asian and Middle Eastern politics, regional flashpoints and relations between Islam and the West. He has interviewed British Ministers Jack Straw and Peter Mendelssohn, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, former Lebanese president Amine Gemayel and political thinkers Francis Fukuyama and Tariq Ramadan. E-mail

Thursday Seminar 04

SEMINAR

by

Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Research Fellow, IDSA

on

Climate Change:

Does it matter to the West Asian Energy Scenario?

Date: 4 February 2010, Thursday

Venue : Room No.203, SIS

Time: 11 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator
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P R Kumaraswamy

Professor P R Kumaraswamy is a student of contemporary developments of the region. He researches, writes and teaches the region and its political and security developments. His new book on India's Israel Policy: From Nonrelations to Friendship would be published by the Columbia University Press in 2010. In December 2009 he began his two-year term as the Chairperson of the CWAS. For the blog containing his writings please click here.

Thursday Seminar 03

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES(CWAS)

SEMINAR NOTICE

Ph.D. Presentation

By

Kundan Kumar

ASPECTS OF INDIAN MIGRATION AND DIASPORA IN THE GULF COUNTRIES, 1820-1947:

AN INQUIRY INTO THE BRITISH IMPERIAL CONTEXT

Date: 28January 2010, Thursday

Venue : Room No.203, SIS

Time: 11 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Thursday Seminar 02

Ph D synopsis presentation
by
Priyamvada A Sawant
on
British India’s Policy towards the Persian Gulf with Special Reference to Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar

Date: 21 January 2010, Thursday
Venue: Room 203, SIS
Time: 11.00 AM


All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

P C Jain

Girijesh Pant

Gulshan Dietl

Professor Gulshan Dietl is at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has served as the Chairperson, Centre for West Asian and African Studies and Director, the Gulf Studies Programme at her University. Her areas of teaching and research are domestic developments, foreign policies and security issues in the Gulf and West Asia. She has been a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York (1993-94), a Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998-99), a Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir (2004), a Visiting Professor at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (2010).

Her publications include The Dulles Era: America Enters West Asia (Lancer International, New Delhi, 1985), Through Two Wars and Beyond: A Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Lancer Books, New Delhi, 1991), Saudi Arabia: People, Politics and Policies (National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2006), and Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations ( Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2007; Co-edited). She has contributed book-chapters and articles which have appeared in International Studies, Strategic Analyses, India Quarterly, India International Centre Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, The Hindu, Times of India, South, Arabia, The Middle East, The Middle East International, Orient, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the COPRI Working Paper Series, the Gulf Studies Programme Occasional Papers Series among others.

A K Pasha

Professor Pasha holds M.A. Degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science from Mysore University; M.Phil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has previously taught at the Centre of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has been a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He has served as Chairperson, and is now Director, Gulf Studies, at CWAAS, SIS, JNU. He has also been Director, Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture, Cairo, Egypt. His research, teaching and writing focused on West Asia and North Africa and he is the author, editor or co-editor of over two dozen books on India, Gulf, West Asia and North Africa. His recent books are Iran, Iraq and the GCC States; India and Turkey; Iraq: Sanctions and Wars; Egypt in a Changing World; Arab-Israeli Peace Process; India, Iran and the GCC States; India and West Asia; India and Oman; Contemporary Gulf; Perspectives on India and the Gulf; India and Kuwait; India: Bahrain and Qatar; and Political Participation in Gulf States. He has contributed research chapters to numerous edited books and his articles have been published in several well known journals. He serves on the editorial boards of many national and international journals including International Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies (Bahrain); Academic Board, Gulf Research Centre, Dubai, UAE and Member International Advisory Board, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Istanbul, Turkey. He is Ex-Chairman, Board of Studies, Center for West Asian Studies, and member, Governing Body of the Chair for Maritime Studies and Research, Calicut University, Kerala; Member, Board of Studies, SIS, JNU; Ex-Member, Board of Studies, Center of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University; Ex Member, Academic Council, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi; Member, Board of Studies, Center for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Executive Committee Member, Indian Association for Central and West Asian Studies, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Member, Research Board, Centre for Peace Studies, New Delhi; Member, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; Ex-Member, Board of Studies, Centre for Minorities and Dalit Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Convener, Academic Committee on Central, West Asia and the Balkans, Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi. He is currently at work on a book, India and the GCC States since 1970.

Thursday Seminar

Pre-Ph D presentation

by

Vrushal T Ghoble

on

India's Policy of Acquiring Oversea Energy Assets:

A study of ONGC Videsh Limited in select West Asian & African Countries

Date: 14 January 2010, Thursday

Venue: Room 203, SIS

Time: 11.00 AM

Seminar Coordinator