On August 2nd, Kendal will present a talk at 7:30 pm via Zoom.
The speaker will be Dr. Lisa Anderson, who will speak on “The Middle East and North Africa in 2021”
Dr. Anderson will provide a tour d’horizon of the Middle East and North Africa, touching on both long-term trends and more recent developments, from the cooling of the UAE-Qatar conflict and the signing of the Abraham Accords to some of the challenges the Biden Administration is likely to face in the coming years.
Currently Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, Dr. Anderson served as Provost and then President of the American University in Cairo from 2008-2016. She was dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia from 1997-2007.
On the Columbia faculty since 1986, she has also taught at Princeton and Harvard. Her scholarly research has included work on state formation in the Middle East and North Africa; regime change and democratization in developing countries; and social science, academic research, and public policy both in the U.S. and around the world.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Anderson is a trustee of the Aga Khan University, Tufts University, and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
All are welcome to join us at 7:30 pm on Aug 2, via Zoom, for this timely discussion.