American University of Beirut
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies
Cordially invites you to a lecture and open discussion with
Francois Burgat
Director of Research, Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur
le Monde Arabe et Musulman IREMAM- France
Arab spring through Yemeni
lenses
Wednesday, Nov. 18. 1:00–2:30 pm
Auditorium B West Hall, AUB
François Burgat is a political scientist and senior researcher at Centre National du
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is a director of a program When
Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World of the European Research Council (ERC)
(WAFAA). He has been a permanent resident in the Middle East and North Africa
region for over 22 years; University of Constantine in Algeria (1973-1980);
Cairo’s French Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économique Juridique et
Sociale (CEDEJ) from 1989 to1993; and as Director of the French Center for
Archeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa (1997-2003). He is the author of The
Islamic Movement in North Africa (University of Texas Press), and Face to Face
with Political Islam (IB Tauris) , and Face to Face with Political Islam (IB Tauris) and
Islamism in the shadow of al Qaeda (Univ of Texas Press).