Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States is a notable academic center "distinguished by its emphasis on study of the contemporary Arab world and its rigorous Arabic language training." Part of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, CCAS was founded in 1975 and noted scholars Hanna Batatu and Hisham Sharabi were part of its founding. The initial money for the center came from the U.S. government as well as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman; shortly afterwards,Libya donated $750,000 for to endow a chair that went to historian Hisham Sharabai, a close associate of Yasser Arafat. Wikipedia*

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Center for Contemporary Arab Studies has hosted 3 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1994 Forum.