Contact information
Name:
Professor E. Ziolkowski
Phone:
6103305181
Email:
ziolkowe@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, room 104
Presenter:
Dr. Habib Malik, American Lebanese University, Beirut
Price:
Free
Dr. Habib C. Malik is an associate professor of history and cultural studies at the Lebanese American University, Beirut. He has lectured and written widely in both English and Arabic on topics that include the history of ideas, Søren Kierkegaard, existentialism, human rights, the plight of native Middle Eastern Christian communities, Lebanon, democracy in the Arab world, interreligious dialogue, America and the Middle East, and Christian faith in a secular world. His books include, among others: Between Damascus and Jerusalem: Lebanon and Middle East Peace, 2 editions (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1997 and 2000); an edited volume,The Challenge of Human Rights: Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration (London: Centre for Lebanese Studies at Oxford, 2001); and a short monograph Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Middle East (2010).
Sponsored by:
The Department of Religious Studies through the Earl A. Pope Guest Lecture Fund, supported by the Lyman Coleman Guest Lecture Fund