Islam, Islamisms, and the West in a Global Context

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 6:15pm to 7:30pm
Common Room, Second Floor Heyman Center for the Humanities

A lecture by AIJAZ AHMAD, a leading Marxist thinker and prominent commentator on South Asian politics, on global Islamist jihadi groups. He is Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Contemporary Studies in New Delhi and author of several books, including In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures.

Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Committe on Global Thought; and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.