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• The Future of Foreign Aid: the Role of the United States In the World

  • When
    Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

  Participants are not required to register, you may join the webinar using this link: https://zoom.us/j/91796002283?pwd=dE15bjl2VG5VWVRFRTlMaUpoVy9wQT09.
  

  Speaker:  Professor Steven Radelet, Georgetown University, Distinguished Professor, and the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development

  Foreign aid is an instrument of United States Diplomacy.  It has a humanitarian component and a developmental component. His work focuses on the role of foreign aid in promoting economic growth, poverty reduction, and global stability.  Dr. Radelet will speak about foreign aid and America’s role in the world.
   
  Professor Steven Radelet has a wide range of experience in government and academia.  He received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.  He was on the faculty of Harvard University as a Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) where he lectured on Economics and Public Policy.  Currently he is the Director of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University where he holds the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and is its Distinguished Professor of the Practice.
   
  Dr. Radelet has extensive experience as a policy maker in the U.S. Government; as an adviser to developing country leaders; as a researcher, teacher, and writer.  He previously served as Chief Economist for USAID, Senior Adviser for Development to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He spent four years as a resident adviser to the Ministry of Finance in Jakarta, Indonesia, and two years as a resident adviser in the Ministry of Finance in The Gambia.  He currently serves as an economic adviser to the president of Liberia.

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• Egypt’s Struggle with the Role of Islam in Contemporary Society

  • When
    Monday, May 10, 2021
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

  Participants are not required to register, you may join the webinar using this link: https://zoom.us/j/91529627099

  Over the past decade, Egyptians of varied ideological viewpoints have offered differing approaches to the role of religion in state and society alike. In his talk, Professor Rock-Singer will explore this conflict over the role of Islam in contemporary Egypt, beginning under British colonial rule in the early 20th century before moving onto the mid-century rise of the post-colonial Egyptian state and its battles with Islamic movements. By telling this history, he will cast light not only on crucial dynamics of 20th century Egypt but also on the fault lines that continue to structure the conflict between President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

  
  Aaron Rock-Singer is a historian of the Middle East and Islam with expertise in the region’s leading religious movements and a particular focus on Egypt. Fluent in Arabic and Hebrew and proficient in Turkish, he has spent over five years living in the region and has published widely on Salafism, Islamism and the role of Islamic scholars in contemporary politics.  In his first book, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival (Cambridge University Press, 2019), he drew on ideologically diverse Islamic magazines from this period to chart the rise of an Islamic Revival in 1970s Egypt within a larger global story of religious contestation and change. His second book, entitled In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in Twentieth-Century Egypt, is under contract with the University of California Press and explore the spread of Islam’s fastest growing movement in this central Arab state.

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