2021– Noura Erakat
“We Broke A Dam: The Palestinian Intifada of Unity”
2020- Laila Lalami
“Memory and Erasure: An Evening with Laila Lalami”
2019– Phyllis Bennis
“National Security and the Climate”
2018– Mohja Kahf
“I Want Milk, I Want Honey! An Afternoon of Poetry with Mohja Kahf”
2017– Neal Katyal
“The President and the Courts in National Security Cases”
2016– Laila El-Haddad
“Food as Lens: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in Palestine”
2015– Thomas Abowd
“Jerusalem and the Prospects for Peace in Palestine/Israel”
2014– Lila Abu Lughod
“Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”
2013– Juan Cole
“Youth Movements and the Arab Revolutions”
2012– Jack Shaheen
“Images of Arabs and Muslims in Popular Culture: Problems and Prospects”
2011– Gwynne Dyer
“The New Middle East: Nonviolence and Democracy”
2010– Saree Makdisi
“Paths to Peace in Palestine/Israel”
2009- Rahim al-Haj
an Evening of Music with Rahim AlHajj (with discussion moderated by Dr. Loren Lybarger)
2008- James Zogby
” The Stakes Have Never Been Higher: U.S. Middle East Policy and the 2008 Elections”
2007- Hon. Marcy Kaptur
“Moving Toward Stability and Democracy in the Middle East”
2006– Kathy Kelly
An Afternoon with Kathy Kelly
2005– Robert Mabro
“The economics and politics of oil”
2004– Naomi Shihab Nye
An Afternoon of Poetry
2003- David Cole
“Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms”
2002– John Esposito
“What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam”
2001- Noam Chomsky
“Prospects for Peace in the Middle East”
Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture 