Bashar al-Assad President of Syria	Saadam Hussein former President of Iraq	Mohammad Khatami President of Iran

Class Presentation: Modern Iraq between Baathism and Shiism [visitor:  Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan]

Professor Cole will give an evening public lecture on March 17, "Shi'ite Movements in Iraq since the War"

Professor Cole has written:
    Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam (2002).
    Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (1998).
    Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's 'Urabi Movement (1993).
    (ed) Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization (1992).
    Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 (1988).

Mid-term exam  - due in class, March 16 [or as email attachment before class]