The Fletcher Islamic Society invites you to a panel discussion with
Dr. Jocelyne Cesari and Dr. Shadi Hamid
"Sharia, Constitution and Politics in the
Countries of the Arab Spring"
Friday, April 11th 2014
2:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Mugar 200, Cabot Intercultural Center
Tufts University
163 Packard Avenue, Medford
Dr. Jocelyne Cesari and Dr. Shadi Hamid will discuss the role of Sharia in
the constitutional development and politics in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt
Jocelyne Cesari is visiting Associate Professor of
Government at Harvard and a senior fellow at Georgetown
University’s Berkley Center where she directs the Islam in
World Politics Program. She is author of the forthcoming The
Islamic Awakening: Religion, Democracy and Modernity
(Cambridge University Press), based on three years research
on state-Islam relations in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and
Tunisia. Her full biography can be found here.
Shadi Hamid is a fellow with The Brookings Institution's
Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Saban
Center for Middle East Policy, and the author of Temptations
of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
(Oxford University Press, 2014), drawing on hundreds of
interviews with leaders and activists from across the region
to advance a new understanding of how Islamist movements
change over time. His full biography can be found here.