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Thursday, November 11, 2010

TODAY -- You're Invited!

On Friday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Maxwell Auditorium on the SU campus, Roger Hardy will deliver a Maxwell State of Democracy lecture titled "Islam and the West:  The Challenge for Barack Obama."  Roger will talk for about 45 minutes, and then there will be very brief responses by Bill Banks, a law and public administration professor and an expert on national security, and Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a political science professor and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Maxwell.  Following that, we'll open the conversation to the audience, and then there will be a reception with food and drink.  Parking is available in Irving Garage for $4.

Roger is a former Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service, and the author of The Muslim Revolt:  A Journey through Political Islam.  It's a neat book that provides a lot of insight in a short space.  Currently, Roger is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in DC.  I interviewed Roger this past summer for the Campbell Conversations.

I think it will be a very thought-provoking afternoon--please consider attending.

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