Messianic Movements in Contemporary Islam
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 12:30PM
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Filiu, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Associate Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies

Speaker Biography

After humanitarian missions in Lebanon and Afghanistan, Jean-Pierre Filiu joined the French Foreign Service and was assigned to Amman. He then became Deputy Chief of Mission in Damascus and Tunis, and served as an adviser to the Minister of Interior, the Minister of Defense, and the Prime Minister, as well. Now a full-time professor, Filiu has recently published several books through Fayard, in Paris, including Mitterrand and Palestine (2005) and The Boundaries of Jihad (2006). His Apocalypse in Islam (2008) has just been awarded the prestigious Augustin Thierry Prize by the "Rendez-vous de l'Histoire" in Blois.

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