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Islam and Tolerance in a Wider Europe

co-sponsored by EES and the Open Society Institute's International Policy Fellowships program and includes a public seminar featuring authors of the recently published IPF book Policy Perspectives. The discussion will begin with a presentation by OSI International Policy Fellow Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Russian human rights organization Memorial; university professor) on Muslim communities and political Islam in the Caucasus, followed by comments from fellow Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah (ILO-Islamabad) who recently completed field research on the roots of political Islam in Pakistani madrassas. A second presentation by fellow Ihsan Dagi (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) will focus on Turkey's political reorientation toward the West and westernization, followed by comments from fellows Simeon Evstatiev (Sofia University and the Center for Intercultural Studies and Partnership, Bulgaria) and Ahmed Idrees Rahmani (Stanford University; formerly with USAID in Afghanistan). In addition to the presenters and discussants, the seminar will be attended by many of the policy fellows from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Turkey who contributed to the recently published OSI International Policy Fellowships book Policy Perspectives: Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe. The seminar will end with a reception hosted by OSI-DC in celebration of the book.

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Friday
Jun. 23, 2006
2:00pm – 4:00pm ET

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Global Europe Program

The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, US-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media.  Read more

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