Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2001

Volume 30, Number 7

Series explores implications of terrorist attacks

Michael Rubin, a visiting fellow of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and analyst of the Middle East, will be the next speaker in the University's "Democracy, Security and Justice" series, presented by International Security Studies.

The series, inaugurated Oct. 2 with a talk by former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, is exploring the implications of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rubin's talk, titled "Fighting the Taliban ... and Iraq? A Report from the Front" will take place Sunday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. All are welcome to attend.

Rubin, who received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Yale in 1994 and 1999, respectively, recently spent time in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Tajikistan, Afghan-istan, Pakistan and the Sudan. He is author of the new monograph "Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatamis Iran."

Future speakers are Father Brian Hehir, Harvard Divinity School, on Oct. 28; Yale historian Donald Kagan on Nov. 4; James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly on Nov. 7; Avi Shlaim, St. Antony's College, Oxford, on Nov. 11; Yale Law School professor Ruth Wedgwood on Nov. 26; and Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, on Dec. 3. Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University is tentatively scheduled for Dec. 9. Further information on their talks will appear in future issues of this newspaper.

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