CASAW Annual Lecture: Durham - Professor Ghassan Salamé
Friday 3 October
6.00pm
The Collingwood Penthouse Suite, Durham University, South Road
Ticketed Event
CASAW is pleased to announce the second annual lecture to be given by Professor Ghassan Salamé entitled “Globalisation and the Arab World.” Professor Salamé is a professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and Senior adviser to the United Nations Secretary General. He was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture from 2000 to 2003. “Dr. Salamé holds a Ph.D. in literature, a Ph.D. in Political Science an M.Phil in Law. He is a Research Director at the CNRS and the CERI of Sciences Po Paris. He taught Political Science in Beirut at Saint-Joseph University and the American University. He was Rockefeller Fellow in International Relations (1981), Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. (1983), and a member of the Social Science Research Council in New York (1985-1990) and co-director of its “State, Nation and Integration in the Arab World” program (1986-1991). Dr. Salamé is a member of the regional Commission for the Mediterranean Sea at the French Commissariat du Plan. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Tunis Research Institute on Contemporary Maghreb and a member of the editorial committees of various journals. He frequently intervenes in the French media on international politics. His current research is on the place of culture in international relations and the practical experience of politics in the Arab and Islamic world. To register for this event, please contact Lorraine Holmes at Durham University ( ).
