NEWS & EVENTS

Final Talk in the War on Terror Lecture Series to Focus on Middle Eastern Politics (April 2006). Khairi Abaza will be visiting campus at the end of April to meet with students and give a public talk. His visit is sponsored by the History Department, the Honors program, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The FDD is a Washington-based, non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts and sponsors research on terrorism.

Born in Rabat, Morocco and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Mr. Abaza, is a Senior FDD Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy focusing on Egyptian politics and democratic reform. Previously, he served as Cultural Committee secretary and a Foreign Affairs Committee member of the Egyptian liberal Wafd Party. Mr. Abaza holds a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern studies from the University of London, where he is currently a PhD candidate in politics.