Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University

Lecture 131 of Think Tank Construction Series

Main features of the construction of the Iraqi nation-state in the post-Saddam era

Speaker: Huang Minxing, Former Director, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of Middle East Studies, Northwestern University

Moderator: Ding Jun, Director, Middle East Studies Institute, Shanghai International Studies University

Lecture Time: June 9 (Monday)10:00~11:30

Venue: Conference Room 704, Research Building, Hongkou Campus, SISU

Speaker Introduction:

Huang Minxing is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Northwestern University, director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Regional and Country Studies at Northwestern University, an expert of the State Council's Special Allowance, the chief expert of the teaching materials of the Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project, and the chief expert of the “Sanqin Scholars' Innovative Team” of world history in Shaanxi Province.

He is mainly engaged in the research of modern history of the Middle East, modernization of the Middle East, and nationalism, and his main books include Saudi Arabia - Development of Human Resources in an Oil-Producing Country, General History of the Middle East Countries - Iraq Volume, and Twenty Lectures on the History and Present Situation of the Middle East, etc.