Event

The Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime at NUPI has the great pleasure of inviting you to the seminar

Roel Meijer, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Commentator:

Tore Bjørgo, Norwegian Policy University College and NUPI

Please notify your participation to ans@nupi.no

no later than 26 February at 14:00.

Roel Meijer
(born 1956) is senior lecturer in the history of the Middle East at the Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He is trained as a historian and did his PhD on Egypt during the end of the monarchy and the early Nasserist period, published as The Quest for Modernity. Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958. London & New York, Routledge/Curzon, 2002. He has edited anthologies on youth and cosmopolitanism in the Middle East as well as one on Iraq (in Dutch). During the past four years he was postdoc fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden, working on Islamist movements in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Until 2011 he is full time researcher for a joint project (with three other researchers) Salafism: Production, Distribution, Consumption and Transformation of a Transnational Ideology in the Middle East and Europe. He is currently editing a volume entitled Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement (Hurst/Columbia UP).