CSID Letter from the President – March 14, 2005

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CSID:

I am writing to invite you to attend the 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, International 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 Ghadbian, 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
 (202) 942-2181 Phone
 (202) 251-3036 Cell
 masmoudi@islam-democracy.org
 www.islam-democracy.org

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 PS.  If you are in Washington this week, please make sure to attend our CSID Monthly Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, between 12:30 and 2 PM.

 Our speaker this month will be professor Francis Fukuyama, and he will speak on "Muslim Immigration and Integration in Europe and in the United States"

For questions or comments about the information in this bulletin,
 please contact Zahir Janmohamed at zahir@islam-democracy.org.

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