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Global Agenda 2010 – Speaker Series – Understanding Political Islam

posted by jeffers at February 23rd, 2010
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Hello everyone,

The University of Delaware is simulcasting its very popular Global Agenda series again this spring. Please join us for our third year of simulcasts in Second Life. The internationally-known speakers and their topics are compelling and timely and present a worthwhile learning experience.

Global Agenda 2010 – Speaker Series – Understanding Political Islam
February 24, 2010 – 4:30-6:00 p.m. PT (7:30 p.m. ET)
Shibley Telhami – Rethinking the Islamic World Paradigm
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26

Shibley Telhani was advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, established by the Wye River Agreements. He served on the Iraq Study Group and on the US State Department’s Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, and he co-drafted its report, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. He is Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland.

Global Agenda is hosted by Ralph Begleiter
Rosenberg Professor of Communication
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Former CNN World Affairs Correspondent

In-world, send an IM to Firery Broome for more info.
For more information about the Global Agenda series visit their web site:
http://www.udel.edu/global