September 19 — America through Middle Eastern Eyes
Do we really want to know what people form the Middle East think about the United States? We do if we want to improve relations.
When: Friday September 19, 10:30 AM
Where: DePauw University, Greencastle IN
DePauw Discourse is a new University tradition of alumni and friends, distinguished guests, faculty and students participating in stimulating discourse about important public issues and popular topics of the day. Register here.
Saad Ibrahim, director of Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies and human rights advocate. A member of the DePauw University faculty from 1967-1974, Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo and founder of both the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. Ibrahim is a leading human rights and democracy advocate in Egypt, and he serves on the Board of Advisors for the The Project on Middle East Democracy. A strong critic of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Ibrahim was imprisoned in 2001 for charges widely criticized by the international community. He was acquitted in 2003.
Kathy Hubbard ’74, founder of Bridges of Understanding. Kathryn Fortunte Hubbard is a founder of Bridges of Understanding, a nonpolitical group working to advance understanding between Americans and people in the Arab world. In 2007 President George W. Bush appointed Hubbard to serve on the twelve-member J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Hubbard’s other roles include deputy chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle ‘69, director of the National Council on Competitiveness and director of development for the Hudson Institute.
Moderator: Jeffrey T. Kenney, professor of Religious Studies, DePauw University . Professor of Religious Studies at DePauw University, Jeff Kenney is the author of Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt. Kenney teaches courses on Islam, Classical Islam, Islam and Modernity, Women in Islam, and Religion and Politics. Kenney earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His graduate and post-graduate studies included two years in Cairo, Egypt, and he travels extensively in the Muslim world, including the Middle East, Turkey and Central Asia.
