EGYPT AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: FREE PANEL DISCUSSION
INSIGHT FROM LEADING SCHOLARS OF EGYPT

Wednesday, September 19 at The New School
Free; RSVP at [email protected]

Egypt in Transition

 

NEW YORK, September 13, 2012 - Two years after protests began in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptians freely elected a president, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. What next? What is the future role of the military, the media, the Islamic doctrine, the status of women? Leading experts will discuss these questions and others at The New School's Center for Public Scholarship event, Egypt after the Presidential Election, on Wednesday, September 19 at 6 p.m.

The panelists are Hazem Fahmy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Mona El Ghobashy, assistant professor of political science and comparative politics at Barnard College; Timothy Mitchell, professor of middle eastern studies at Columbia University; and Samer Shehata, assistant professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University. CUNY Graduate Center professor of anthropology Talal Asad will moderate the panel.

"The success or failure of Egypt's democratic transition has enormous implications for the Middle East and for the world," said Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research and director of the Center for Public Scholarship.

This event launches Egypt in Transition, the 2012 Summer issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly, which is devoted to the proceedings of the 27th Social Research conference on the same theme.

Admission to Egypt After the Presidential Election is free of charge; RSVP at the Center for Public Scholarship's website or by writing [email protected]. The panel discussion will be held in The New School's Tishman Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Program details can be reviewed online at www.newschool.edu/cps/events.

The Center for Public Scholarship aims to bring the best scholarship and expertise to bear on current, pressing social issues in a way that makes the scholarship accessible to the public and simultaneously deepens understanding of what may be at stake and how to proceed. It seeks to become a catalyst for events that draw on the humanities, social sciences, design, and public policy and have the potential of accomplishing our mission, namely, enhancing the public's understanding of the significant issues of our time. The Center is dedicated to promoting academic freedom and freedom of inquiry, goals that are rooted in the earliest history and ideals of The New School. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/cps

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