Emir Abd El-Kader: Legacy and Impact on Global Affairs

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Join us with Dr. John Esposito, Dr. Josef Meri, and Dr. Nader Hashemi to learn more about the Research Initiative, Abd El-Kader’s remarkable legacy, and his enduring relevance to international affairs. Among other exciting opportunities for scholars and students, the event will also announce the launch of a grant prize competition which will award ten generous scholarships to eligible students at Georgetown University.

Speakers

John Esposito is Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and the Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. Past President of the American Academy of Religion and Middle East Studies Association of North America, Esposito has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of State and other agencies, European and Asian governments, corporations, universities, and media worldwide and ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders and E. C. European Network of Experts on De-Radicalisation. He has received honorary doctorates from St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, the University of Sarajevo, University of Florida and Immaculata University as well as the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion, Pakistan’s Quaid-i-Azzam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Outstanding Teacher Award and Georgetown’s Career Research Achievement Award. Esposito’s more than 50 books have been translated into over 45 languages.

Josef Meri was most recently a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s branch campus in Qatar and served as a research affiliate at the Alwaleed Center from 2021 to 2024. In June 2024, he was appointed Senior Fellow with ACMCU’s Bridge Initiative. His extensive background in the academic study of interfaith relations in past and present in the Middle East and global contexts, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and the history of religions has led him to hold various academic positions. Meri has lived in various cities around the world, including Amman, Berkeley (California), Binghamton (New York), Cairo, Cambridge (UK), Damascus, Doha, Jerusalem, London, Munich, and Oxford (UK). He has taught in institutions in London, Cambridge, Munich, and Doha. His teaching encompasses themes of identity and belonging, history and autobiography, memory, religious pluralism, interfaith and inter-spiritual relations, religious experience, the sacred and the secular, comparative religion, the history of religions, and applied research methodologies in the humanities and social sciences.

Moderator

Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2011), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge, 2023). He is frequently interviewed by PBS, NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera, Pacifica Radio, Alternative Radio and the BBC and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Al Jazeera Online, CNN.com among other media outlets.

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Painting of Emir Abd El-Kader superimposed over maps of France and Algeria