The Institute for Middle East Studies, The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and The Future of Democracy Initiative present The Challenges of Integrating Islam: Comparative Experiences of Europe and the Middle East   Thursday, February 14, 2008 Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St. NW 10:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. R.S.V.P. to imes@gwu.edu       10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.   Panel Discussion—“Contrasting Approaches to Religious Practice: The Issue of Head Scarves”   Chair: Hope M. Harrison, Director of IERES and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs   “Sign of Religious Freedom or Female Repression? An examination of the headscarf issue in Turkey” Merve Kavakci, Lecturer in International Affairs, GWU “Secular Europe and its Veiled Muslims” Zeyno Baran, Director, Center for Eurasian Policy and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute “Islam, the Egyptian Constitution, and Veiling” Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU      12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Lunch Keynote Address—“Can Islam be French?”  Chair: Nathan Brown, Director of IMES and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs   John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis        1:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.  Panel Discussion—Emerging Transnational Communities  Chair: Hope M. Harrison, Director of IERES and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs   • “Mobilizing the U.S.-Lebanese Diaspora: Mapping the Players in the Game” Liesl Riddle, Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs, GWU (Joint work with Aram Nerguizian, GWU) • “Mediatized Islam, Cyberspace and the Public Sphere”    Jon Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University • “The Social and the Political: Islamist Views on Reform”    Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU       R.S.V.P. to imes@gwu.edu