Date and Time
November 14, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM November 12

Speaker
Gilles Kepel - Professor, Institut d'Études Politiques, and Research Director, CNRS/CERI Paris, co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

Dr. Gilles Kepel is a professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and a research director for CNRS Paris. A prominent French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and Arab world, he is the author of several books and articles: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam; The Revenge of God; Muslim Extremism in Egypt; Allah in the West and his most recent book The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West.

Dr. Kepel is fluent in French, English, Arabic, and Italian. He holds doctorate degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in political science and sociology