The activity is happening March 22nd at the University of Québec in Montreal (UQAM) in the management Building, room RM-110 from 9:30 to 12h00. The event will start with the opening panel: Today Irak, and tomorrow? Why does the american empire wants to redefine the world. Challenges and perspective for the anti-war movement and civil society.
Specialist of the American foreign policy in the Middle East, Phyllis Bennis is a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and author of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN (Interlink, 2000) and, Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis (Septembre 2002).
Pierre-Jean Luizard is a researcher at the Centre national de recherches scientifiques (CNRS) in Paris.
Author of the books La Formation de l’Irak contemporain (edition, 2002, CNRS Éditions) and of La question irakienne (Fayard, 2002), Pierre-Jean Luizard is a specialist of contemporary history of Islam in the Arabic countries of the Middle East. He was recently the guest at the TV show Le Point on Radio Canada.
Due to the declaration of the war on Iraq, the conference will end at 12:00 to allow us to participate in the anti-war demonstration at 1:00 at the Square Dominion.
