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Dr. Augustus
Richard Norton
Woodrow
Wilson Fellow
March 20-23, 2006
Public Lecture:
"Between Ideology and Pragmatism: Islamists in Politics"
Location: Furman University, Burgiss Theater
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Public Address:
"America in the Minds of Muslims"
Location: Furman University, Younts Conference Center
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Professor Norton
is a professor of International Relations and Cultural Anthropology
at Boston University and is an internationally-known expert in the
politics, cultures, and religions of the Middle East. He is a frequent
analyst for CNN and other news networks, and is widely quoted in
the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and newspapers
around the globe. His current research centers on reform strategies
of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the renewal of reformist
Muslim thought.
His books include
Amal and the Shi'a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon, The International
Relations of the PLO (senior editor), Political Tides in
the Arab World (co-author), UN Peacekeepers (co-author),
Security in the Middle East: New Perspectives (in Arabic)
and the two volume collection Civil Society in the Middle East.
His recent articles have appeared in Current History, Foreign
Policy, Journal of Palestine Studies, Middle East Journal, New Perspective
Quarterly, and Political Anthropology, in addition to numerous
articles in leading newspapers.
He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Middle East Studies Association,
the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, the American Political
Science Association, the Academic Board of the Oxford Centre for
Islamic Studies, and he is a co-founder of the Conference Group
on the Middle East. Norton earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University
of Miami; his Ph.D., from the University of Chicago.
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