Give peace a chance: Israeli-Palestinian band with a mission coming to Bates

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

Published on	Description

Tuesday February 26, 2013 4:06 pm	Give peace a chance: Israeli-Palestinian band with a mission coming to Bates Bates presents the young Israeli and Palestinian musicians of Heartbeat, a band seeking to use music to promote peace in the Middle East, on Feb. 27
Friday January 25, 2013 1:30 pm	Saudi Gazette publishes Saudi-focused essay by Andersen ’12, Tatro ’14 The Saudi Gazette publishes “Bridging the Gap,” a student-written account of the 2012 Short Term to Saudi Arabia.
Wednesday December 5, 2012 4:07 pm	In letter to New York Times, Danforth takes issue with Saudi book, characterizations Danforth’s letter is in response to a review of the book On Saudi Arabia by Karen Elliott House.
Wednesday October 17, 2012 1:56 pm	Yemen needs ‘resilience’ approach, writes Diener ’99 in Christian Science Monitor Increasing short-term relief aid — although an important stopgap measure — is not a durable solution for Yemen.
Tuesday May 8, 2012 4:49 pm	J Street U presents ‘Crisis of Zionism’ author Peter Beinart, an author who predicts a breach between young U.S. Jews and Israel if that country maintains its current policies toward the Palestinians, speaks on May 15.
Friday January 13, 2012 4:04 pm	Arab News highlights new Short Term course heading to Saudi Arabia An op-ed in the newspaper Arab News praises Leena Nasser ’12, the Bates student who helped to craft the new anthropology course scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia in May.
Tuesday November 29, 2011 1:50 pm	Middle East expert to discuss U.S. role in Israeli-Palestinian peace Lara Friedman visits Bates to discuss America’s role in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Wednesday October 27, 2010 3:47 pm	Global Lens series continues with Iranian film 'My Tehran for Sale' The Global Lens series of films from around the world continues at Bates College with “My Tehran for Sale” by Iranian director Granaz Moussavi, showing at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30, in the Olin Arts Center, Room 105, 75 Russell St.
Friday February 12, 2010 9:54 am	Maine veteran, Afghan student to take part in Bates College panel on war in Afghanistan A panel of Bates College students and faculty, along with a Waterville peace activist, discuss the war in Afghanistan at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Bates College’s Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
Monday December 21, 2009 11:41 am	Life Lessons Army Lt. Col. Mark Leahey ’86 poses with a young boy who had been following Leahey and other Army soldiers one morning during a foot patrol in a Kurdish neighborhood of Kirkuk City. “The boy’s name is Mahmood,” Leahey writes in an e-mail to Bates Magazine.

Published on

Description

Bates presents the young Israeli and Palestinian musicians of Heartbeat, a band seeking to use music to promote peace in the Middle East, on Feb. 27

Saudi Gazette publishes Saudi-focused essay by Andersen ’12, Tatro ’14

The Saudi Gazette publishes “Bridging the Gap,” a student-written account of the 2012 Short Term to Saudi Arabia.

In letter to New York Times, Danforth takes issue with Saudi book, characterizations

Danforth’s letter is in response to a review of the book On Saudi Arabia by Karen Elliott House.

Yemen needs ‘resilience’ approach, writes Diener ’99 in Christian Science Monitor

Increasing short-term relief aid — although an important stopgap measure — is not a durable solution for Yemen.

J Street U presents ‘Crisis of Zionism’ author

Peter Beinart, an author who predicts a breach between young U.S. Jews and Israel if that country maintains its current policies toward the Palestinians, speaks on May 15.

Arab News highlights new Short Term course heading to Saudi Arabia

An op-ed in the newspaper Arab News praises Leena Nasser ’12, the Bates student who helped to craft the new anthropology course scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia in May.

Middle East expert to discuss U.S. role in Israeli-Palestinian peace

Lara Friedman visits Bates to discuss America’s role in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Global Lens series continues with Iranian film 'My Tehran for Sale'

The Global Lens series of films from around the world continues at Bates College with “My Tehran for Sale” by Iranian director Granaz Moussavi, showing at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30, in the Olin Arts Center, Room 105, 75 Russell St.

Friday

February 12, 2010
9:54 am

Maine veteran, Afghan student to take part in Bates College panel on war in Afghanistan

A panel of Bates College students and faculty, along with a Waterville peace activist, discuss the war in Afghanistan at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Bates College’s Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).

Monday

December 21, 2009
11:41 am

Life Lessons

Army Lt. Col. Mark Leahey ’86 poses with a young boy who had been following Leahey and other Army soldiers one morning during a foot patrol in a Kurdish neighborhood of Kirkuk City. “The boy’s name is Mahmood,” Leahey writes in an e-mail to Bates Magazine.