Talk: "The Coming of the Europeans to the Gulf"

The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center invites you to attend

"The Coming of the Europeans to the Gulf:
Oil and the Rise of the New Nation States"

featuring

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Rome Auditorium
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Edmund Ghareeb is an Adjunct Professor of Middle East history and politics in the School of International Service at American University and AU’s Center for Global Peace’s first Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global Kurdish Studies. He has also taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, UVA and McGill University. Dr. Ghareeb is an internationally recognized expert on the Kurds, Iraq and media issues. He is the author of The Kurdish National Movement, The Kurdish Question in Iraq, and the Historical Dictionary of Iraq, the co-author of the recent War in the Gulf and the editor of Split Vision: The Portrayal of Arabs in the American Media. r. Ghareeb is a former journalist and media consultant for the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, DC. He has lectured widely on US policy toward the Middle East, US-Arab relations, Arab-Americans, the American media’s coverage of the Middle East, the Information Revolution in the Arab World, Iraq, the Kurds and the Gulf, and is interviewed frequently by major global media outlets, including CNN, al-Jazeera, and NPR.