Date and Time
June 4, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM June 3

Speaker
Farhad Khosrokhavar - Professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Rockefeller Fellow and Visiting Professor at Yale

Farhad Khosrokhavar is Professor of Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Rockefeller Fellow and Visiting Professor at Yale. He is the author of a forthcoming book: Jihadism worldwide, that will be published by Paradigm Publishers in Yale Sociological Series in November 2008. He has extensively published on Muslims in European prisons (with James Beckford and Danièle Joly, Muslims in Prison, Challenge and Change in Britain and France, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers) and radical Islam (Quand Al Qaeda parle, Grasset Publishers, Paris, 2006). His book Suicide Bombers, the new martyrs of Allah (2005, Pluto Press, London) has been translated into ten languages.