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The Struggle for Iraqi Civil Society
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
12:00 PM
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
2:00 PM
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Ethics and Public Policy Center
1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
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Since June 2003, Ms. Zainab Al-Suwaij has been working in Iraq with USAID to rebuild the Iraqi school system and to implement women’s empowerment programs. She will speak about the challenges and possibilities facing Iraqi civil society since the fall of Saddam Hussein. She will report that Hamas and Hezbollah have opened up offices across Iraq, and will talk about what American can do to help support Iraqis who want to build a free and tolerant society.
The Ethics and Public Policy Center has invited Ms. Al-Suwaij to present her observations and reflections on these and other questions. Ms. Al-Suwaij is the executive director of the American Islamic Congress, an organization founded after September 11 in the belief that American Muslims should play a leading role in rejecting Islamist radicalism and promoting a democratic future in the Muslim world. A Shiite Muslim and native of Basrah, Iraq, Ms. Al-Suwaij’s memoir of the failed 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein appeared in The New Republic (“The Fire Last Time,” February 10, 2003), and her other articles on Islam and democracy have been published in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Al-Suwaij last spoke at the Center in April 2003. (Click here to read more about that event.)
AGENDA
We will begin at 12:00 pm on Thursday, January 15 with a catered lunch at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1015 15th Street, NW Suite 900. The conversation will begin at approximately 12:30 pm and a discussion will follow.
REGISRATION
Registration is free. You can register by clicking the link below, or by corresponding with the contact person listed at the bottom of this page.
More Information
Kasey Cook
1015 15th St NW #900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 682-1200 x206
Fax: (202) 408-0632
E-mail: kcook@eppc.org
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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