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Bombs, Bridges, and Biography: lessons for the present from the father of Algeria?

Hosted by the Middle East Centre

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ,

Speaker

Dr Tom Woerner-Powell

Dr Tom Woerner-Powell

University of Manchester

Chair

Professor Toby Dodge

LSE Middle East Centre

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From his struggle against French colonialism in North Africa to his stand against religious sectarianism in Syria, the actions of Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri have been an inspiration to many. The symbolic father of modern Algeria has frequently been presented as both an exemplary Muslim and a bridge between East and West. Tom Woerner-Powell launches his book Another Road to Damascus: an integrative approach to ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri, in which he questions prevailing depictions of the historical figure in scholarly literature and beyond, and discusses his continued salience as a symbolic mediator between the supposedly conflicting zones of ‘Islam and Europe’, ‘East and West’. 

Tom Woerner Powell is Lecturer in Modern Islam at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

Toby Dodge (@ProfTobyDodge) is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre and Professor in the International Relations Department at LSE.

The LSE Middle East Centre (@LSEMiddleEast) builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE.

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