Egypt’s regime change and prospects for democracy at Feb. 24 Thursday Morning Roundtable

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

The Feb. 24 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) will feature Miriam Elman, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and one of the faculty research directors of international and intra-state conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Elman will present “Beyond the Jasmine Revolution and Tahrir Square: Egypt’s Regime Change and the Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East.”

Elman is also the director of the Project on Democracy in the Middle East (DIME) at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and a member of the advisory board and steering committees for the Judaic Studies Program, the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.

She received a bachelor’s degree in international relations and English literature, and a master’s degree in international relations from the Hebrew International University of Jerusalem. She also earned a master’s degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

TMR meets from 8:15-9:15 a.m. at Drumlins, 800 Nottingham Road. For further information, contact Sandra Barrett, director of community programs, (315) 443-4846 or visit http://www.yesu.syr.edu/community/tmr. The TMR program is broadcast on WCNY-FM, 91.3 on Sundays at 8 p.m. and at http://www.wcny.org/tmr.

For more information, contact Sandra Barrett, director of community programs, at (315) 443-4846 or visit http://www.yesu.syr.edu/community/tmr. The TMR program is broadcast on WCNY-FM 91.3 on Sundays at 7 p.m. and at http://www.wcny.org/tmr.