Activities - Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)

CSID Activities

The activities of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) include the following:

Seminars and lectures at mosques, churches and think tanks around the country by noted scholars and activists on Islam & Democracy.
International workshops on Islam & Democracy in Muslim countries.

To date, CSID has held 3 workshops, in Morocco, Egypt, and Yemen, all in October 2002. These workshops were groundbreaking in their success in bringing together a wide collection of political actors--Islamist as well as secularist--to discuss democracy in the Islamic world.

Additional workshops are planned in Turkey, Algeria and Jordan in Spring 2004.
An annual academic conference on Islam and Democracy. CSID's conferences bring together specialists, activists and policymakers to share ideas.

Attendees and speakers have included high ranking government officials (e.g., Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East William Burns) and internationally renowned scholars (e.g., Fathi Osman, Tariq Ramadan, Khurshid Ahmed) and activists (e.g., Saad Eddin Ibrahim) from the Muslim world.

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