Past Event
Seminar

Will Al-Qaida Self Destruct?

Open to the Public

Nelly Lahoud, a research fellow with the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, will speak in the Islam in the West Program's lecture series at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, in the Cabot Room.

Exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden speaks in 1998 at a meeting at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

About

Nelly Lahoud completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the Australian National University. For the 2008–2009 academic year, Dr. Lahoud is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Initiative on Religion and International Affairs. Her research interest is in the area of classical and contemporary Islamic political thought, and recent publications in the Routledge Curzon Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies Series include: Islam in World Politics (2005) and Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries (2005). She recently completed a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Location: Cabot Room, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

This event is open to the public.