Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy

Dear Friends and Colleagues: 

Please join us on Monday, May 9th, for an important lecture followed by discussions with Hamadi Jebali, Secretary General of the Nahda Party in Tunisia, on the future of democracy in Tunisia, Islamic or secular?

You can also watch the lecture and the debate LIVE (as well as recorded) on:

LIVE Webcast

Hamadi Jebali was born 1949 in Sousse, Tunisia. He graduated from the French engineering school "Arts et Métiers" in 1980 with an engineering degree in energy. He participated in many civil society activities during his 10 year stay in France, and was one of the founders of the French Muslim Association, and participated in inter-religion dialogue.  He came back to Tunis in 1981, and became a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Tendency Movement. He became president of the movement from 1981 to 1984. He was condemned to perpetuity because of his political views in 1987.  After Ben Ali came to power in November 1987, Mr. Jebali became the political director of Nahda, and director of the newspaper "El Fajr", the official newspaper of the party. In 1990, he was condemned for 16 years of prison, because of his political views and affiliation with al-Nahda, and spent 10 years in solitary confinement while in jail.  He was freed in 2006. Then, he reintegrated the Nahda party, and became the Secretary General of the party.

 

Monday, May 9, 2011

4:00 to 5:30 PM

The Henry L. Stimson Center

1111 19th Street, NW, 12th Floor

Washington, DC, 20036

 

 

Seating is limited - please rsvp to:

rsvp@islam-democracy.org