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Distinguished Guest Lecture
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Dr. Ismail Serageldin
Director
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
cordially invites you
to share the knowledge of a senior scholar in
Africana Studies, Ibn Khaldun, Islamic and Social
Sciences as well as Political Science
Prof. Ali Mazrui
will give a presentation on
"AFRABIA:
IS AFRICA MERGING WITH
THE ARAB WORLD?"
Tuesday, 3 January 2006,
at 4:00 pm
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Conference Center - Middle Hall
ALI A. MAZRUI, born in Mombassa, Kenya, 1933, is now An Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Ali Mazrui is a graduate of the school of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, Virginia, also a Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana.
Mazrui obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in England, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York, and his doctorate from Oxford University in England.
He wrote more than twenty books, which include Towards a Pax Africana (1967), and The Political Sociology of the English Language (1975).
His research interests include African politics, international political culture, political Islam, and North-South relations.
Dr. Mazrui has also written for magazines and newspapers.
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