On November 10, the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University organized the II Student Conference named after Hussein Ajjawi “The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Past and Present”. For the first time in two years, the conference was held in the online format, which allowed a large number of participants and guests from different countries to join it.
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Timofey Bordachev, the scientific director of CCEIS, published an article "Imperial Restraint of Russia" at the Valdai Discussion Club, in which he analyzes the necessary transformations of the Russian policy in the post-Soviet region.
On Thursday, November 5, the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of HSE University, within the framework of the permanent online seminar “Contemporary Area Studies” together with the Russian Middle East Association held a meeting with a well-known specialist in Arabic calligraphy, project director of Qatar University Dr. Ibrahim Fakhroo on the topic “The Journey with Arabic Calligraphy”.

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On Tuesday, November 3, the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of HSE University, within the framework of the online seminar “Contemporary Area Studies”, held a meeting with an orientalist, international journalist, candidate of historical sciences, author of several books on the Korean Peninsula and the head of the Russian news media in East Asia, Oleg Kiryanov.
Kutyrev Georgy, Researcher at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations, took part in the conference «Transformation of the Third Sector in the Digital Age», which was held on October 20-21, 2020 on the topic: "Civil society, political parties and social movements in the countries of the Iberian Peninsula".
On Tuesday, October 27, an online meeting was held with Svetlana Babenkova, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, IVRAN, Ph.D., MBA. The discussion was organized as part of a series of online expert seminars “Contemporary Area Studies” of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, with the assistance of the Russian Middle East Association.


