Dr. Francois Burgat: Political Islam Through Arab Revolutions
American University of Beirut, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs And Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies
Cordially invites you to a lecture and open discussion with
Francois Burgat, Director of the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO)
Political Islam through Arab revolutions
Tuesday, March 27. 5:00–6:30 pm
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, AUB
Dr. Francois Burgat is a political scientist and senior researcher at Centre National du Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Currently based in Beyrouth, Burgat is the Director of the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO). He has been a permanent resident in the Middle East and North Africa region for over 22 years; University of Constantine in Algeria (1973-1980); Cairo’s French Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économique Juridique et Sociale (CEDEJ) from 1989 to1993; and as Director of the French Center for Archeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa (1997-2003). He is the author of The Islamic Movement in North Africa (University of Texas Press), and Face to Face with Political Islam (IB Tauris).
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