WAUKESHA – Three faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha will sit on a panel discussion Friday, October 12, to sort out background and future meaning of the attack on America manifested September 11, 2001. It will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Commons Room 101 and is open to the public at no charge.
Panelists include Salah Bassiouni, an associate professor of sociology and a native of Egypt; Ken Glaudell, a senior lecturer in political science and an expert on the Middle Eastern political climate; and Asif Habib, an associate professor of chemistry and a native of Pakistan. Assistant professor of political science Margaret Hirschberg will moderate the panel.
Bassiouni was born and educated in Egypt, receiving a Ph.D. in anthropology from Alexandria University in 1977. Subsequently, he worked at the Social Development Center of the Institute of National Planning in Cairo, Egypt, and taught at Ain-Shams University, Cairo, where earlier he had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In 1982 he completed a graduate certificate in population at the University of Chicago. From 1984 to 1989, he was an assistant professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi, Arabia, and in 1991 was awarded a Ph.D. in sociology by Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. He taught at UW-Marinette from 1992-1998, when he joined the faculty at UW-Waukesha. He has published in both Arabic and English.
Glaudell began teaching at UW-Waukesha in 1995, although his appointment has not been continuous. As an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he studied political science with a minor in Arabic and history and participated in the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, studying the language at the American University in Cairo. After graduating cum laude in 1982, he entered UW-Madison’s master’s program as a research fellow. In 1984-85 he participated in the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan and then returned to Madison to complete his master’s degree in 1987 with a major in political science and minor in south Asian studies. In 1996 he took his Ph.D. from UW-Madison in international and comparative politics and political philosophy. His dissertation addresses issues that confound us today, “An Afghan of Unknown Views: Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Role of Shi’ism in Islamic Political Thought.”
A biochemist involved in research to recover energy from solid waste, Habib came to the USA from his homeland in Pakistan to enter the doctoral program at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, physics, and mathematics and a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Punjab, Pakistan. He began teaching at UW-Waukesha in 1989 and completed his Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry in 1991. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. Habib has family still living in Pakistan.
Panel moderator Margaret Hirschberg of the UW-Waukesha political science department holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, East Lafayette, IN, and specializes in political theory, international relations, women’s studies, and American politics.
A question and answer period will follow the discussion. The public is invited to participate.
The program is sponsored by the campus University Convocations Committee. |
