Join us for an event co-sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED), Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI), MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies (SJES), and Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) in Plaza 600F on Thursday, November 26, 2026, at 6:00 PM for a talk by Dr. Nader Hashemi: The Real Reason the US/Israel Attacked Iran: Reflections on the Middle East and Global Disorder.

Dr. Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and previously was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. Dr. Hashemi was previously the founding Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. While there, he was also Co-Director of the Religion and International Affairs certificate program, as well as the Political Theory Initiative. His intellectual and research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, in particular debates on the global rise of authoritarianism, religion and democracy, secularism and its discontents, Middle East and Islamic politics, democratic and human rights struggles in non-Western societies and Islam-West relations. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2011), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge, 2023). He is frequently interviewed by PBS, NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Radio and the BBC and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Al Jazeera Online, CNN.com among other media outlets. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).

Thursday, November 26, 2026, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Plaza Room 600F at Brock University

A Palestinian buffet will be provided.

This is a FREE event, however, we ask that attendees register on ExperienceBU in advance and arrive by 5:45 PM so everyone can be seated at the start time. Anyone not able to register through ExperienceBU will be registered at the door.

Co-sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization; Social Justice Research Institute; Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; and MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies.