The Cox International Center, Grady College, and the Department of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs will co-sponsor Dr. Sam Cherribi’s lecture “Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring and Political Islam.“

Sam Cherribi (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is Senior Lecturer at Emory University (MESAS) and Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics.

Prior to moving to Emory in 2003, Dr. Cherribi served as a Member of Parliament in The Netherlands for two consecutive four-year terms (1994-2002), during which time he also represented The Netherlands in the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the West European Union.

Dr. Cherribi’s book “In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed” was published in paperback in 2013 by Oxford University Press. His most recent book is “Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera and the Arab Spring,” published by Oxford University Press in 2017.