Expert on Suicide Bombing Will Talk at University of Oregon

University of Oregon campus.

(EUGENE) - Faisal Devji, author of "Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity," will talk about suicide bombing during a free public lecture at the University of Oregon on Friday.

The talk, "Dying on Principle: The Claims and Renunciations of Suicide Bombing," will begin at 4:00 PM, in Room 211, Lillis Business Complex, 955 E. 13th Ave.

Devji teaches history at the New School for Social Research, a private institution in New York City. He has held faculty positions at Yale University and at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in intellectual history.

He was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and head of graduate studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, where he directed post-graduate courses on the Near East and Central Asia.

The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Center for the Study of Women in Society are sponsors of the talk. For more information, call (541) 346-1521.

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You have to admit, like Bill Maher, it takes guts to really put yourself on the line for your beliefs. Too bad he was canned after that. Timing is everything. If he said that today, most people would not bat an eye. Do you all see how beautiful time is?

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