FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2008

Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes 202.663.5626
E-mail: fklubes@jhu.edu

JHU SAIS and American Interest to Host Forum on Islam and the West

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and The American Interest will hold a forum, “Existential Threat or Historical Footnote? What Our Obsession With Islam Is Costing Us,” on Monday, September 15 at 5 p.m.

Panelists for this event include:

• Bernard-Henri Lévy, renowned French journalist, philosopher and author of Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism (to be released September 16 by Random House)
• Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program and the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy
• John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University
• Adam Garfinkle (moderator), editor of The American Interest and former speechwriter to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Kenney Auditorium located on the first floor of the school’s Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to The American Interest at 202.223.4408 or http://www.the-american-interest.com/event/.

Media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu.