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In Celebration of the first Anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution, CSID-Tunisia cordially invites you to a lecture & Debate on:

 

 U.S. Relations with the Muslim World After the Arab Awakening of 2011   

   

 

Professor John L. Esposito

World renown Expert on Islam and the Muslim World,

and on U.S. Relations with the Muslim World  

Moderated by Radwan A. Masmoudi

President of CSID

 

 

Saturday, January 14, 2012

3:00 to 5:00 PM

 

at the CSID-Tunisia Office

Ave. Kheireddine Bacha, Pacha Centre, Bloc B, 5ieme Etage
Montplaisir, Tunis, Tunisia  

      

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Open to the Public - Lecture will be in English with interpretation in Arabic.  

   

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محاضرة و حوار مفتوح حول


العلاقة بين أمريكا و العالم الإسلامي

بعد الثورات العربيّة لسنة 2011

 

  

للأستاذ جون إسبوزيتو

من جامعة جورجتاون الأمريكيّة

   

يقدّمه و يسيّر الحوار الدكتور رضوان المصمودي

رئيس مركز مداد  

 

 

السبت 14 جانفي 2012

من الساعة الثالثة إلى الخامسة مساءًا

 

 

بالمقرّ الجديد لمركز دراسة الإسلام و الديمقراطيّة بتونس

الكائن بحيّ منبليزير، شارع خير الدين باشا، عمارة باشا سنتر

 مدخل ب - الطابق الخامس - تونس  

  

 

 

 

John Esposito at CSID ConferenceJohn L Esposito is University Professor as well as Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.   

  

Esposito has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of State and other agencies, European and Asian governments and corporations, universities, and the media worldwide. A former President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, Vice Chair of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, and member of the World Economic Forum's Council of 100 Leaders, he is currently Vice President (2011) and President Elect (2012) of the American Academy of Religion and a member of the E. C. European Network of Experts on De-Radicalisation and the board of C-1 World Dialogue and an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations.  

 

Esposito is recipient of the American Academy of Religion's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion and of Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azzam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Award for Outstanding Teaching.    

 

Esposito is Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Islamic Studies Online and Series Editor of The Oxford Library of Islamic Studies, Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 vols.); The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (4 vols.), The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and The Islamic World: Past and Present (3 vols.). His more than 45 books and monographs include: Islamophobia and the Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century, The Future of Islam, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (with Dalia Mogahed), Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Politics; What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, World Religions Today and Religion and Globalization (with D. Fasching & T. Lewis), Asian Islam in the 21st Century, Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk (with S. Hitchcock); Islam: The Straight Path; Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam (with J. Voll); Modernizing Islam (with F. Burgat) Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism or Reform?, Religion and Global Order (with M. Watson), Islam and Secularism in the Middle East (with A. Tamimi); Iran at the Crossroads (with R.K. Ramazani); Islam, Gender, and Social Change and Muslims on the Americanization Path and Daughters of Abraham (with Y. Haddad); and Women in Muslim Family Law. Esposito's books and articles have been translated into more than 35 languages.  

 

Esposito's interviews and articles with newspapers, magazines, and the media in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London, CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Dr. Jeanette P. Esposito.

  

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