Release date: Oct. 8, 2004
Contact: Elaine Justice, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu

Emory's An-Na'im To Speak On Darfur Crisis

WHO: Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law

WHAT: Lecture: "Darfur Crisis: The World Responds"

WHEN: 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16

WHERE: White Hall, room 208, 301 Dowman Dr., Emory. Free parking in the Fishburne and Peavine decks. For directions, go to: www.emory.edu/WWW/directions.html

COST: Free and open to the public. 404-727-2536

Scholar and activist Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, will address the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, as part of a series of campus events and activities planned in response to the conflict.

An-Na'im is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights. A native of the Sudan and practicing Muslim, he has been called "the Martin Luther of modern Islam." An-Na'im was jailed in the 1980s for his views while working as an attorney and university professor in Khartoum.

In exile from Sudan since that time, An-Na'im is a prolific scholar and advocate in this country, but the impact of his work is international. At Emory since 1995, he has directed a series of multi-year, international research projects funded by the Ford Foundation on women and land rights in Africa, a 40-nation study of Islamic family law involving hundreds of scholars, and a human rights and Islam fellowship program.

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