World-renowned human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a professor of sociology at the American University of Cairo in Egypt, will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 18, in Old Main Chapel.
Ibrahim, who was imprisoned for three years before his conviction was overturned by the Egyptian High Court in 2003, will speak on "Spring of Freedom? Is Real Change Coming to the Arab World?" His talk is free and open to the public.
Ibrahim was nominated for the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and is the recipient of numerous international awards recognizing his struggle for human rights, including the International PEN Writers in Distress Award, the International Human Rights Award of the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights, and the Middle East Studies Academic Freedom Award.
His lecture is sponsored by CU-Boulder's Institute of Behavioral Science and co-sponsored by the departments of political science and sociology.
For more information call (303) 492-2111.