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Fall Semester -
Academic Year 2010 Events
۞
Transcending Borders:
Asia, Middle East, and the Global Community
International Forum on
Asia-Middle East Studies
16-17 October 2009
United States Naval Academy
۞ KJH Lecture:
Carrie R. Wickham
27 October
2009
Carrie Rosefsky
Wickham received her B.A. Magna cum laude
from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Princeton.
She is Associate Professor of Political
Science at Emory University in Atlanta,
Georgia, where she teaches courses on
Islamist groups, parties and movements and
Middle East Politics. Wickham is the author
of
Mobilizing Islam:
Religion, Activism and Political Change in
Egypt
(Columbia University
Press, 2002). She has published articles in
Comparative Politics; PS:
Political Science and Politics;
Middle East Policy; and the Muslim
World Journal of Human Rights. With
support from the Carnegie Corporation of New
York , she launched a new research project
on change in the goals and strategies of
Islamist groups in the Arab world which will
eventually culminate in a new book (now in
progress).
۞
KJH
Lecture: Mark Bowden
19 November
2009
Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for
Atlantic Monthly, an author, journalist,
screenwriter and teacher. He is an adjunct
Professor of Creative Writing and Journalist
at Loyola College of Maryland and is the
author of almost a dozen books including
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
(1999) which was on
the New York Times bestseller list for more
than a year and later adapted to film
by the director Ridley
Scott. He is also the author of
Guests of the
Ayatollah: The
First
Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
(2006)
which was adapted into a four-part
television series.
