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The Center Welcomes Professor Dató Dr. Mohammad Salleh Din

The newest Tun Abdul Razak chair is Professor Dató Dr. Mohammad Salleh Din. Professor Salleh earned his bachelor's degree in accountancy and an MBA from Miami University (of Ohio). He received his Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and small business from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom and completed post-doctoral work in advanced management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Salleh is the director of the Entrepreneurship Development Institute at Universiti Utara Malaysia and is a professor of business.

Housed in Ohio University's Center for International Studies, the Tun Razak Chair teaches, conducts research and performs regional and national outreach activities in an effort to disseminate knowledge about Malaysia and to improve the understanding of and appreciation for Malaysia among key American publics.

Progressive Islam in Africa and Southeast Asia: a Media Project to Honor the Life of Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, 1909-2009

Imagining and Realizing Progressive Islam: A Framework and Call to Action

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im has become one of the world's leading spokespersons for a Muslim progressive perspective. He is Charles Howard Candler Professor at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta and author or editor of 10 books including the most recent, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Sharia (Harvard University Press, 2008). Dr. Abdullahi was Professor of Law at the University of Khartoum, was a political prisoner in Sudan in the 1980s and later served as Director of Human Rights Watch Africa. He has received numerous awards and honors for his writing and human rights work in Africa and across the Muslim world.

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Emory University
27 May 2008
Bentley 140
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Sponsored by: The Center for African Studies and The Center for South East Asian Studies
With support from: The Social Science Research Council, New York

The Center Welcomes its Inaugural Frances M. and Stephen H. Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies

Dr. Carlyle Thayer, an American scholar who has lived and worked in Australia for thirty-six years, is a full professor of politics at The University of New South Wales (UNSW). UNSW works with the Australian Defense Department to provide a liberal and balanced education in a military environment. Dr. Thayer studied political science at Brown, earned an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies from Yale, and a PhD in international relations from the Australia National University. He is the author of over 370 publications and is currently the inaugural Frances M. and Stephen H. Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University.

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