All faculty at CERIS member institutions/organizations are invited to attend at 5:30 p.m. A light dinner will be provided, with a book discussion to follow.
Book Title: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali Allawi. Discussion will be facilitated by Dr Fran Rohlf of Mt Aloysius College.
All faculty at CERIS member institutions/organizations are invited to attend at 5:30 p.m. A light dinner will be provided, with a book discussion to follow.
Book Title: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali Allawi. Discussion will be facilitated by Dr Fran Rohlf of Mt Aloysius College.
The laws of war are silent on what should happen after the bombs have dropped. Civilians lawfully harmed in war are often left with nothing. Do we owe war's survivors something more? CIVIC is arguing for a new standard of conduct one that expects warring parties to 'make amends' to the civilians they harm. This principle already is at work in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
In defiance of a military curfew, more than 150,000 protesters packed into Tahrir Square Sunday to call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The mood was celebratory and victorious. For most, it was not a question of if, but when, Mubarak would leave. What will happen next for this long standing ally of the U.S. with 80 million people, what are the implications for Egypt's future, and how will this change relations with Israel, Hammas leadership in Gaza, and other countries in the Middle East?
Do educational attainment and income in predominantly Muslim countries affect public support for suicide bombing? Does it make a difference whether the targets are civilians within the respondent's country or Western military and political personnel in Iraq? Dr. Shafiq has studied six predominantly Muslim countries that have experienced suicide bombings: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. His findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between targets of suicide bombings and the problems with making generalizations about all Muslim countries. M.
Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this riveting, insider's perspective on life in Iran's capital city, Marzieh--a terminally ill actress--wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official.
The first chapters in the narrative of Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world are dotted with some significant question marks. Nevertheless, it is commonly agreed that it was India that played a particularly important role as the conduit for diffusing the Islamic belief and ideas to the Malay-Indonesian world. It was only in the eighteenth century that the Middle East began to play a prominent role in the narrative of Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world.
Are Muslims friends or foes to America? How can we tell? Does Islam that unites Muslims divide them as well? How so? What does this mean to the U.S. foreign policy? These questions and others will be addressed by Professor Moataz Herzawi's talk in which he will dissect the phenomenon of Political Islamism from a Middle Eastern perspective. He will respond as well to several of the thorny questions that are haunting the American mind.
M. Najeeb Shafiq, Assistant Professor, Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
