Date / Venue
Friday, October 30, 2009
The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, CNE,
Toronto @ 7:30pm
Doors open at 7:00pm
Price
Online - $15;
At Door - $20
Experts Featured
Dalia Mogahed
Senior Analyst at Gallup and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. She is coauthor of the book Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (Gallup Press, March 2008).
Mogahed provides leadership, strategic direction, and consultation on the collection and analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey representing the opinions of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com) through which Gallup, in collaboration with the Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West.
John Esposito
Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
Esposito specializes in religion and international affairs with an emphasis on Islam and has authored over thirty five books. His most famous works include Who Speaks for Islam, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam and The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? His works have been translated into multiple languages such as Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Bahasa Indonesia, Urdu, Japanese, Chinese and many European languages.
Esposito is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders, the High Level Group of the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations and President of the Executive Scientific Committee for La Maison de la Mediterranee’s 2005-2010 project, “The Mediterranean, Europe and Islam: Actors in Dialogue.” He has received many awards for his contribution to his field including the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion (2005), Pakistan’s Quaid-i-Azam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies (2005) and Georgetown University’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (2003).
Rami George Khouri
An internationally syndicated political columnist and author.
He is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Lebanese Daily Star newspaper. Khouri has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award (2006) for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East
Kenneth M. Pollack
Director and Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute.
One of the most influential and trusted think tanks in the United States. He is author of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East. Pollack, a past Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council and an expert on national security, also spent seven years in the CIA as a military analyst.
