Dr. Asef Bayat Lecture - UCLA (February 22, 2006)             Title of the Lecture: Islam and Democracy: The Perverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question  Introduction & Brief Excerpt (Audio)Asef Bayat is the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the ISIM Chair at the University of Leiden. He has taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo an has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and the University of Oxford. ...[ more ] Front Page |