Dr J. E. Peterson*
Date: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Time: 6.30 pm sharp!
Will a change in America mean a change towards the Middle East?
By
Tom Fenton**
Date: Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Time: 6.30pm
* Dr. J.E. Peterson is a historian and political analyst specializing in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University SAIS and has worked at the Library of Congress and taught at Bowdoin College, the College of William and Mary, the University of Pennsylvania, and Portland State University, all in the United States. He has been a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia) and the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.), and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.). Until 1999, he served as the Historian of the Sultan’s Armed Forces in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defence in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, and he spent 2000-2001 at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He is affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona and served as the 2004 Sir William Luce Fellow at the University of Durham (UK).
** Tom Fenton in his long journalistic experience as senior foreign correspondent for CBS News has reported on everything from the fall of the Shah of Iran that marked the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, to its latest manifestation in al Qaeda and the world-wide jihad movement. As the author of Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All, he is now a leading critic of the journalistic failures that left America unprepared for 9/11, and of the mainstream media’s continued addiction to a diet of shallow news and infotainment that has kept Americans still unprepared for a new and hostile world.
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Dinner will be served
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