A series of lectures on “The Politics of Contemporary Islam” has begun at Princeton University, each a 4:30 p.m. event in 219 Burr Hall. The series is sponsored by the university’s Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24, the topic will be the Genealogy of Revolutionary Islamism: A Historical Footnote, by Fawaz Gerges, the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
The other lectures are:
• Martyrs Without Borders: The Puzzle of Foreign Fighters in the Iraqi Insurgency, by Mohammed Hafez, a visiting professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, on Nov. 7.
• Salafism in Yemen and the Question of Politics, by Laurent Bonnefoy, a doctoral candidate at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
