Past Events
Sponsored by
The African and Middle Eastern Division
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September 2002
This collaborative project between the Library and the Fulbright program was initiated in the spring of 2002, when the State Department asked the Library to videotape a September conference it was sponsoring on "Women in the Global Community" in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to the formal program, the Library videotaped interviews by Mary-Jane Deeb with six exceptional Muslim women who attended the conference for the Library's Web site. Two each are from Afghanistan, Turkey and the Arab world.
April 22, 2002
The African and Middle Eastern Division sponsored the Tenth Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture. Michael C. Lemmon, U.S. Ambassador, the Republic of Armenia (1998-2001), Dean of the School of Language Studies, Foreign Service Institute on "Reflections on Armenia's Place in the Region and the World."
January 29, 2002
Islam in America, 18th-21st Century
A symposium on the impact of Islamic religion and culture in America.
SPEAKERS: Carolyn Brown, Marieta Harper, Derrick J. Beard, John O. Hunwick, Yvonne Y. Haddad, Prosser Gifford,
Akbar S. Ahmed, Sylviane A. Diouf, Amir Al-Islam
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