#  Writers Speak | How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs 

 



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 **June 17, 2020** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Zoom Webinar**  



 

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##  Speaker: Elizabeth F. Thompson

 *\*Registration is required to attend. See link below.\**

 Elizabeth F. Thompson in conversation about her new book, *How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance,* with Sunil Amrith and Claire Messud

 **Elizabeth F. Thompson** is Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, School of International Service and Professor of History, American University

 **Sunil Amrith** is Mehra Family Professor of South Asian History, Interim Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University

 **Claire Messud** is a novelist and Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction, Harvard University

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