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Juan Cole 08/24/2007

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This talk will be broadcast on C-Span at some later date, but will be available later on Friday at the web site of the New America Foundation.

New America Foundation

Juan Cole: Lessons from Past Western Incursions in the Middle East

Friday, August 24, 2007
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC

Cole will discuss his new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East and the relevance and lessons of Napoleon’s expedition in Egypt to the current American occupation of Iraq. New America Foundation/American Strategy Program Director Steve Clemons will offer comments and moderate the discussion.

Juan is a professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan, the President of the Global Americana Institute, and the publisher of Informed Comment, a blog that specializes in providing translations and commentary on the modern Middle East.

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Juan Cole
Author, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
Publisher, Informed Comment

Steven Clemons,
Senior Fellow and Director
American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, TheWashingtonNote.com

To RSVP for this event: communications@newamerica.net with name, affiliation, and contact information.

If you have questions, call or email Liz Wu at (202) 986-2700 x315 or wu //a t// newamerica.net

The New America Foundation • www.NewAmerica.net
1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20009

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At the Napoleon’s Egypt blog: “British Navy Sink’s Bonaparte’s Fleet, Marooning French Army in Egypt.”

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About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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