The Center on National Security Presents
Putting the Middle East in Historical and Geopolitical Context
A Conversation with Author
Gilles Kepel
Chair of Middle East and Mediterranean studies, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and Director, the Middle Eastern Mediterranean Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano
To Discuss his Latest Book
Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West
with
Karen Greenberg
Director, Center on National Security
Wednesday, May 20th
11:00A.M.-12:00 P.M
Gilles Kepel is chair of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and director of the Middle Eastern Mediterranean Freethinking Platform at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. He is the author of many widely acclaimed books, including, most recently translated into English, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West (2017).