“Egypt After the Presidential Election”: Panel Discussion on Wednesday, September 19, 2012

As part of its Social Research Conference Series, The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School for Social Research proudly introduces “Egypt After the Presidential Election”, a panel discussion involving seminal scholars and practitioners who will share their thoughts on Egypt’s future.

AC⁴ encourages you to attend this event.  A message from the panel organizers is below.

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Join us for a panel discussion about Egypt’s future, post-presidential election and under Mohamed Morsi’s stewardship.

This event launches Egypt in Transition, the 2012 Summer issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly (79:2), which is devoted to the proceedings of the 27th Social Research conference on the same theme.

Panel Participants

Hazem Fahmy, economist and writer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Mona El Ghobashy, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics, Barnard College

Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University; author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (UCP, 2002)

Samer Shehata, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Panel Moderator

Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Date and Location

Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 6:00-8:00pm
The New School
John Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenue)

Event Details

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. RSVP is not required, but appreciated to cps@newschool.edu.

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