Middle East Expert Will Discuss "Political Islam" at Sesquicentennial Lecture Nov. 9

For release: October 26, 2009
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey, 901/678-2843

Dr. James L. Gelvin

Middle East expert Dr. James L. Gelvin will give the annual Sesquicentennial Lecture at the University of Memphis Monday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Fogelman Executive Center, Room 136. He will discuss “The Global War on What, Exactly? Making Sense of Political Islam.”

A 6 p.m. reception and book-signing will precede the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.

Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is a specialist on the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism and political Islam.

The lecture is sponsored by the U of M Department of History and the Sesquicentennial Fund. The Sesquicentennial Lecture Series began in the late 1980s with the bequest to the department of a number of medallions made in honor of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Memphis.

For more information, contact Dr. Kent F. Schull by phone at 901-678-2868 or via email at kfschull@memphis.edu

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