Veteran journalist and leading human rights advocate, at the UN as Director of Communications to Secretary General Kofi Annan, and is now Senior Program Director at the Salzburg Global Seminar. Edward Mortimer has been one of the most influential writers on global affairs beginning in the 1970s and 80s with both the London Times and […]
Jamil Mroue is a leading figure in Arab and international media. The son of Kamel Mroue, who was assassinated in Beirut by pro-Naser thugs in 1966 for his liberal defense of Arab values in his papers, al-Hayat and the Daily Star, Jamil Mroue took up the tradition of innovation, independence and vision that his father […]
One of the most prominent dissidents in the Middle East, Dr. Ayman Nour is the founding president of El Ghad – the centrist secular party established in Egypt in 2004 around broad campaigns for human rights, constitutional reform, limits on executive power, and multiple presidential candidates – and is now leader of a successor party, […]
Deputy chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt since December 2002, Justice Sherif was previously appointed to the Council of the State where he served in various positions within the judicial section. In addition to his judicial work, he served as a legal adviser to several government agencies, including the Prime Minister’s Office […]
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Prof. Udovitch received his B.S. from Columbia University in 1958, obtaining both his M.A. in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from Yale University. He taught at Brandeis University and at Cornell University before arriving at Princeton in 1968 where he served as Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Studies […]
Historienne spécialiste de l’islam méditerranéen Née en 1936 à Tunis dans la famille juive d’un fariquant de céramique, sous le nom de Lucette Chemla, Lucette Valensi apssé une licence d’histoire à la Sorbonne (1958). Elle est connue sous le nom de son premier mari. Elle a adhéré un temps au Parti communiste français. Son engagement […]
