The 9/11 Museum will launch their monthly public program series on April 29th. The series explores current events in the Middle East and the violent spread of Islamist radicalism with leading expert Bernard Haykel. Haykel, a Princeton professor, will discuss the rise of ISIS, and the role ISIS and its rivalry with al-Qaeda play in the multiple conflicts spreading across the Middle East. He will disentangle the geographic, sectarian and ideological factors that pose such a threat to the region – and to the security of the United States.

Bernard Haykel makes frequent media appearances, including PBS, NPR, the New York Times, al-Jazeera and the BBC. The live talk is moderated by Clifford Chanin, the 9/11 Memorial’s Vice President for Education and Public Programs. The Atlantic, in their recent, celebrated cover story What ISIS Really Wants, called him "the foremost secular authority" on the subject. This talk is part of an ongoing series of conversations that will be held in the Museum auditorium, as a way of updating the seemingly constant changes in the status and power of ISIS.

April 28, 2015, 4:00–6:00 PM | Please RSVP by April 24
Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10017

The Institute of International Education invites you to a discussion and reception celebrating the newest publication in the Global Education Research Reports Series, Asia: The Next Higher Education Superpower?, edited by Rajika Bhandari and Alessia Lefébure and published by IIE and the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) Foundation.

Panel moderated by Peggy Blumenthal, Senior Counselor to the President, IIE. Panelists include:

• Rajika Bhandari, Deputy Vice President for Research and Evaluation, IIE
• Alessia Lefébure, Director of the Alliance and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
• Joanna Regulska, Vice President of International and Global Affairs, Rutgers University
• Koichi Ai, Deputy Consul-General and Director of the Japan Information Center