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News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Office of Communications
22 Chambers St., Suite 201
Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
Telephone 609-258-3601; Fax 609-258-1301
For immediate release: September 3, 2002
Contact: Marilyn Marks, 609-258-3601 or mmarks@princeton.edu
Media advisory: Conference on Islam after Sept. 11
Who: ..... Prominent scholars and journalists from the Middle
East and around the world
What: ..... Conference on "Understanding and Responding to the
Islamic World after Sept. 11." Participants will examine issues of modernization,
democracy and responses to terrorism. The conference is free and open
to the public.
When: ..... Sept. 27 and 28
Where: ..... 50 McCosh Hall on the Princeton campus
(an interactive campus
map and information on parking
are available online)
Scholars and journalists -- most of them from the Islamic world --
will gather at Princeton for a major conference on issues confronting
Islam. Conference organizer Jeffrey Herbst, chair of Princeton's politics
department, said the event will illustrate the "diversity of views in
the Islamic world."
Panelists will discuss issues relating to Islam both in the United
States and abroad, including responses to terrorism, governance, democracy
and the relationship between Islam and the non-Islamic world.
A complete agenda is below. For planning purposes, reporters interested
in covering this event should notify Natalie Lennon at (609) 258-3601
or nat@princeton.edu.
AGENDA
"Understanding and Responding to the Islamic World after 9/11"
Princeton University, September 27-28
(All events in McCosh 50)
Friday, September 27th
9:15 a.m. -- Welcoming remarks: Provost Amy Gutmann
Keynote address: Professor Abdulkarim Soroush
(recently, visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School)
10:30 a.m. -- Panel: Development and Modernization
Dr. Nader Fergany (speaker)
Director, Almishkat Centre for Research, Giza, Egypt
Professor Khurshid Ahmad (panelist)
Ex-Member of Senate, Pakistan and Chairman, Institute of Policy Studies,
Islamabad
Mr. Hazem Saghie (panelist)
"Tayarat" (Currents) Supplement Editor, Al-Hayat, London
2:00 p.m. -- Panel: Islam and Civil Society
Professor Ridwan Al-Sayyid Ajami (speaker)
Lebanese National University
Professor Abdelwahab Meddeb (panelist)
Université Paris X (Nanterre)
Mr. Rami Khouri (panelist)
Syndicated columnist and freelance TV and radio host, Amman, Jordan
4:00 p.m. -- Panel: Islam, democracy, and governance
HRH Prince (Morocco) Moulay Hicham Benabdallah (speaker)
Dr. Abdou Filali-Ansary (panelist)
Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga
Khan University, London
Professor Zafar Ishaq Ansari (panelist)
Director General, Islamic Research Institute
International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Saturday, September 28th
9:00 a.m. -- Panel: Islam and the non-Islamic world
Professor Nilufer Gole (speaker)
Directeur d'etudes
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Centre d'analyse et d'intervention sociologiques, Paris, France
Professor Sulayman S. Nyang (panelist)
Department of African Studies
Howard University, Washington, DC
Professor Mamoun Fandy (panelist)
Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies
National Defense University, Washington, DC
11:00 a.m. -- Panel: American responses to Islamic diversity
Professor Philip B. Heymann (speaker)
James Barr Ames Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Mr. Ziad Asali (panelist)
President, American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
Washington, DC
Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl (panelist)
School of Law
UCLA
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