Panel Discussion in NYC on Egypt after the Presidential Election

The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship will host a panel discussion about Egypt’s future, post-presidential election, and Mohamed Morsi’s stewardship. This discussion will take place on September 19th at The New School in New York City. This event will launch Egypt in Transition, the 2012 Summer issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly (79:2), which is devoted to the proceedings of the 27th Social Research conference on the same theme.

Participants in the panel discussion include:

• Hazem Fahmy, economist and writer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Mona El Ghobashy, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics, Barnard College
• Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University; author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (UCP, 2002)
• Samer Shehata, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
• Moderator: Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

This discussion is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/cps/events or contact cps@newschool.edu.