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�鶹ӰԺ’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business Administration will host a co-lecture, “The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings,” to be given by two of Northeast Ohio’s experts in Middle East politics and political economy on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in Room  483 of the College of Business Administration Building, home of �鶹ӰԺ State's College of Business Administration.

Joshua Stacher, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of political science at �鶹ӰԺ State and author of “Adaptable Autocrats:  Regime Power in Egypt and Syria,” published by Stanford University Press. Pete Moore, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University and co-author of “Beyond the Arab Spring: Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World,” which examines root causes of the Arab uprisings.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists (OAEPS) and is co-sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Consortium of Middle East Studies (NOCMES). A reception will follow the lecture.

For more information about this event and the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists, please visit . To learn more about the Northeast Ohio Consortium on Middle East Studies, visit .

The Business Administration Building is located at 475 Terrace Drive on the �鶹ӰԺ Campus. Visitor parking is available in the �鶹ӰԺ Student Center visitor lot on Summit Street.