[Discussion] CONF.- Democracy & Development: Challenges for the Islamic World, April 2005, Wash DC

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF.- Democracy & Development: Challenges for the Islamic World, April 2005

CSID 6th Annual Conference:
Democracy and Development: Challenges for the Islamic World
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC 20008
Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, 2005

This year's program promises to be extremely rich and informative.  The
CSID program committee has put together an excellent program, which
includes six panels on:

  - Internal Resources and their Relevance
  - Paradigms for Economic Development
  - Open Forum: Voices of Muslim Democrats
  - The Impact of Globalization on Democratization & Development
  - Women and Political-Economic Development
  - US Policy toward Democratic Reforms in the Muslim World
  - Barriers to Development
  - Identifying Conceptual & Functional Pre-Requisites for
Democratization in the Muslim World

Among the speakers and panelists at this year's conference are:

U.S. Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice (invited)
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios (invited)
Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, DC
Lorne Craner, National Republican Institute, DC
Saad Eddine Ibrahim, Ibn-Khaldoun Center, Egypt
Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie Corporation of New York - Invited
Anisa Mehdi, Whetsone Productions, NJ
Fawaz Gerges, Sarah Lawrence University, NY
Imam Hassan Qazwini, Islamic Center of America, MI
Zainah Anwar, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia
Asma Afsaruddin, Univ. of Notre Dame
Antony T. Sullivan, Fund for American Studies
Farid Senzai , Inst. for Social Policies and Understanding
Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College
Najib Ghadhban, Univ. of Arkansas
Ali Paya, Center for the Study of Democracy, UK
Reza Eslami Somea, Univ. of Tehran, Iran
Mahmoud Rashdan, Jordan
Aminah Rasul, Philippines
Anara Tabyshalieva, Kyrgyzstan
Abu Elela Mady, Hizb al-Wasat, Egypt
Wael Nawara, Hizb al-Ghad, Egypt
Merve Kavakci, Turkey
Muhammad Al-Habash, Syria
Sherif Ahmed Mansour, Ibn Khaldun Center, Egypt
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Minaret of Freedom Institute
Shadi A. Hamid, Georgetown University, DC
Robin Bush, The Asia Foundation, Indonesia
Paul Sullivan, National Defense University, DC
Louay M. Safi, ISNA Leadership Dev. Center
Asma Barlas, etc&
and many other excellent speakers, panelists, and over 250 participants.

To view the Tentative Program or to register for the conference, please
go to: http://www.islam-democracy.org/

To renew your membership, and benefit from the lower registration fee,
please go to: http://www.islam-democracy.org/get_involved.asp

CSID has also secured about 50 rooms at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel,
Washington, DC for anyone participating or attending the CSID conference
(the Special Group Rate of $119.00 a night will expire on March 31,
2005), please call the hotel directly:

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road, NW, Washington, DC 20008
202-328-8822 or 800-228-9290

If you or your organization/institution are interested in buying a table
($1,000) or in being listed as a co-sponsor of the conference ($3,000),
please contact our conference coordinator, Ms. Layla Sein at:
202-942-2185 by e-mail to: sein@islam-democracy.org.  Your support is
vital for the success of the conference, and will allow CSID to defray
some of the travel expenses for the speakers (those coming from
overseas), as well as hopefully offer some scholarships for graduate
students to attend the conference.

We greatly appreciate your support, and we look forward to your
participation on April 22-23, 2005.

With warm greetings and salaam,

Dr. Radwan A. Masmoudi
President
Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
2121 K Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20037-1801
Tel: (202) 942-2181
Mob: (202) 251-3036
E-mail: masmoudi@islam-democracy.org
Web: www.islam-democracy.org


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