“Revolution in the Middle East” roundtable discussion
Date of Event: March 10, 2011
Posted: March 7, 2011
North Africa and the Middle East
A roundtable discussion titled “Revolution in the Middle East” will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Presidents Room of Denison University’s William Howard Doane Library (400 West Loop). The discussion, sponsored by the Gilpatrick Center, the Department of Economics and the Global Studies Seminar Series, is free and open to the public.
The discussion will feature four panelists: Walker F. Todd, attorney and economic consultant; Pierre Dairon, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia; Sohrab Behdad, Denison University professor and holder of the John H. Harris Chair in Economics; and Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University assistant professor of economics.
Todd was a member of the United States negotiating teams that obtained the release of 52 United States hostages from Iran in 1981. Since 1998, he has been a visiting research fellow and instructor for the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Mass. Dairon spent two years in Morocco working for the French foreign ministry. Behdad is an expert in international finance, Middle Eastern economies and Iranian society. Kaboub, also an expert in international finance, is an authority on North Africa and the Middle East.
Calendar Listing:
CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville — Roundtable discussion, “Revolution in the Middle East,” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Presidents Room of Denison University’s Doane Library (400 West Loop). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Fadhel Kaboub at 740-587-6315 or visit www.denison.edu.
About Denison:
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.
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