CASAW Lecture | “Discourses of Difference between ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’”, Prof Sami Zubaida
Date: Tuesday 25 January 2011
Time: 6.15pm
Venue: The University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1
CASAW is delighted to host Professor Sami Zubaida on Tuesday 25 January 2011. Professor Zubaida will give a talk entitled Discourses of Difference between ‘Islam’ and the ‘West’.
Professor Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at the University of London, Birkbeck College and Research Associate at the Middle East Institute of SOAS (London). He has held visiting positions in Cairo, Istanbul, Aix-en-Provence, Berkeley, Paris and was Visiting Global Professor at the New York University Law School. Professor Zubaida’s research and writing span religion, culture, law and politics in the Middle East. His books include Islam, the People and the State (1994, re-issued 2008), A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (co-edited with Richard Tapper, 2000) and Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003).
All welcome.
