We are delighted to announce that Emran Qureshi,a fellow at the Labor and Work Life Program at Harvard Law School, will be our presenter at the SCR event. Emran had just published an op-ed in the NYT about the Cartoons Row. He will talk about the relationship between the West and the Islamic world, the radicals and moderate voices within the Muslim world and their ideological background.

In his talk, he will focus especially on the radicals, more specifically on Al-Qaeda. He will explore the "ideology" of al-Qaeda: its intellectual antecedents, its trajectories, and the discourses which are used to rationalize and legitimize violence--especially against the West and non-combatants.

An evening with

• Emran Qureshi, a fellow at the Labor and Work Life Program at Harvard Law School

Monday, February 13, 2006 at Mather House

• 5:15 p.m. ~ Reception, Senior Common Room
• 5:45 p.m. ~ Informal presentation, SCR: ""The Political Theology of al-Qaeda"
• 6:30 p.m. ~ Dinner and discussion, Small Dining Rooms A & B

Emran Qureshi is an independent scholar, writer, and freelance journalist. He is the co-editor of The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy recently released from Columbia University Press. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Guardian Weekly, and Globe & Mail. In 2004-2005, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School. This year, as a Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program, he is studying the development of labor organizations in the Muslim world.