Deadly Implications
The Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies presents:
Peter Sluglett,
Middle East Institute,
National University of Singapore.
"Deadly Implications: The Recent Rise of Sectarianism in Syria."
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
The growth in the number and frequency of sectarian incidents and conflict, particularly in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria (as well as in such disparate states as Egypt, Indonesia and Malaysia) has been accompanied by the growth of increasingly violent forms of Sunni fundamentalism. Given that most contemporary manifestations of "sectarianism" are also forms of "anti-Shi‘ism," it is not surprising that the two phenomena have gone hand in hand.
Peter Sluglett is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century Arab Middle East, of the area which is now Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. He is interested in straight political and socio-economic history, as well as in the urban social history of a somewhat wider area.