Rice University History Professor Citino will discuss his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967. He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa’ud, and the Making of US-Saudi Relations (2002). A light lunch is provided. This event is co-sponsored by UCSB’s Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program. Part of the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development’sSeries on Development Across Time and Place: New Scholarship, Critical Perspectives, bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines to interrogate the history and legacies of development.