Academic Year 2006-2007

"Theocracy, Democracy, and the Conservative Consolidation in Iran"
March 8, 2007, 5:30PM
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
Speaker: Vali Nasr, Professor and Associate Chair of Research, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Part of the Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series
Cosponsored by The Fletcher School
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Democracy in the Middle East: Staying the Course
November 28, 2006, 12:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center
Speaker: Chibli Mallat, Lebanese Presidential Candidate; European Union Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union, Universite Saint-Joseph, Beirut 

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Chibli Mallat, a leading academic, legal scholar and democracy activist, is running for President of Lebanon. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law at Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut and is currently a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He has taught international and Islamic law at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Yale Law School, and other major universities. Over a period of two decades, Mallat has had a consistent record of intervention and reflection on issues of human rights, crimes against humanity, the democratic process, and the rule of law, engaging the international judicial, political, and media arena to promote creative and pragmatic solutions. His many publications include The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi'i International.
For more information, please visit www.mallat.com

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