AUTHOR AMIR IDRIS TO SPEAK AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN

Dr. Amir Idris, an assistant professor of African American studies at Fordham University, will speak about the ongoing war in Sudan and the role that international agencies and governments have played in response to the crisis, at William Paterson University in Wayne on October 21 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Raubinger Hall 101. Admission is free.

Idris is the author of Sudan’s Civil War: Slavery, Race and Formational Identities, which provides an in-depth look at the crisis there. More than 50,000 people have been killed during the current war, and more than 1.4 million civilians have been driven from their homes; many have fled into neighboring Chad.

Idris is an expert in the history and politics of colonialism, slavery and race, and post colonial relationships in Northeast Africa. He is currently working on another book titled, Conflict and Identity Politics in the Sudan.

The program is sponsored by William Paterson University’s Department of Political Science, Department of African and African American Caribbean Studies and Department of Women Studies.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Aaron Tesfaye, assistant professor of political science, at 973-720-3428.

William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, offers 30 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs through five colleges: Arts and Communication, Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Health. Located on 370 hilltop acres in Wayne, the University enrolls nearly 11,500 students and provides housing for nearly 2,300 students. The institution's 358 full-time faculty are highly distinguished and diverse scholars and teachers, many of whom are recipients of prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Program (26 scholars), the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.

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