Understanding Culture, Religion, and Society in the Middle East: Diverse Perspectives
Zvika Krieger, March 18, 2009
4:30pm - Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
How do dialogue and advancement occur in an environment where cultures and beliefs are sometimes at odds?
This first part in a continuing series features thoughtful and influential journalists who explore education, politics, and dialogue through a composition of insights and anecdotes. With their intellectually diverse perspectives and their education in methods of analysis, Carnegie Mellon students are in a unique position to understand an emerging Middle East, an important region to the U.S.
From studying the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan to researching public health in Bombay slums, Zvika Krieger has led an adventurous young career. After graduating from Yale in 2006, he worked as a correspondent for Newsweek magazine, based in Egypt and Lebanon and covering most of the Arab world. His writing has focused on the tensions between the region's conservative culture and increasing American influence. In his lecture, he will discuss the role of Western education in the Arab world and how an American education focused on innovation and technology is relevant in connecting to and working with the Middle East.
Zvika Krieger is an editor at the Washington-based political magazine The New Republic. He was formerly a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the Middle East, based in Egypt and Lebanon and covering most of the Arab world. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Slate, New York, Arab Reform Bulletin, New Stateman, Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Star (Lebanon), Cairo Magazine, Jerusalem Post, Christian Science Monitor, and various other publications, and he has appeared as a Middle East analyst on NBC News, CNN, and Fox News.
He has received fellowships to study topics including the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Kifaya reform movement in Egypt, public health in Bombay slums, religious identity in Kashmir, historical memory in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, and the role of religion in Lebanese politics. He has also reported from such places as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Dubai, North Ireland, Sri Lanka, Japan, and Korea. His writings have earned him awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He is a 2008 Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. He has a bachelor's degree in Middle East Studies from Yale University and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.
Co-sponsored by Tartans for Israel
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