8 - 28 Sep 2016
Committee Room 5,
House of Commons
House of Commons
Caabu will be hosting a Members' only panel discussion on the crisis in Egypt: The way forward. If you are not a member of Caabu already, we would like to invite you to become one. If you would like to do so please sign up here. Please feel free to visit our website to see what we do. This event is for paid up members only.
PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM HAS NOW CHANGED TO COMMITTEE ROOM 6
When:Tuesday, 16 July, 6:30pm - 8pm
Where: Committee Room 6, House of Commons
Chair: Andy Love MP
As the situation in Egypt deteriorates following the major protests across the country and the removal of President Mohammed Morsi by the military on the 3rd July, a Caabu panel of experts will discuss the way forward for Egypt during this crisis. Caabu would be delighted if you could join us for a Members' only panel discussion on Egypt with Dr Maha Azzam, Crispin Blunt MP and David Butter.
About the speakers:
Dr Maha Azzam:
Dr Maha Azzam is a Caabu board member and an authority on Islamist movements. Her DPhil at Oxford University (1989) was a study of Egyptian Islamist movements in the Sadat era, including a fringe group known as al-Jihad. Azzam was Head of the Programme on Security and Development in Muslim States at the Royal United Services Institute, and has been an Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House since 2000. She was one of fifteen specialists at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies Trans-national Threats Project, analysing impact of Islamist radicals in Europe.
Ian Black:
Ian Black is the Guardian's Middle East editor. In more than 25 years on the paper he has also been its European editor, diplomatic editor, foreign leader writer and Middle East correspondent. He will have just returned from Egypt, where he was reporting for the Guardian. You can read his articles here.
Crispin Blunt MP:
Crispin Blunt is the Conservative MP for Reigate, and was a Justice Minister from 2010 to 2012. He was Chairman of Caabu between 2004 and 2009, and Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council (CMEC) between 2003 and 2008. He will have just returned from a fact-finding mission to Egypt.
David Butter:
David Butter is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. He was the regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Economist Intelligence Unit, and the Middle East editor for the EIU's Viewswire global analysis service. He studied Arabic and Persian at Oxford University, and subsequently obtained a master's degree in development economics from Sussex University. He worked as a news agency reporter in Beirut from 1979-82, and joined the London-based Middle East Economic Digest in 1984, becoming editor of that publication in 2000. He has written extensively about Egypt, particularly from an economic perspective.
If you would like to attend this panel discussion on Egypt, please RSVP to Joseph Willits (willitsj@caabu.org), or get in touch via Twitter. You can also communicate with us on our new Facebook group.
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