Drexel Student Alliance (DSA) of the United Nations Association (UNA) of the USA is hosting a diverse panel of experts to analyze the prevailing uncertainty surrounding the nuclear programs being pursued by the Islamic Republic of Iran, on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Stratton Hall 113-Campbell Auditorium. The event is open to the Drexel community and general public.
The expert panelists include: international security expert, Jim Walsh, Ph.D.; author, former journalist and Iran analyst, Geneive Abdo; and physicist and nuclear weapons researcher, Ivanka Barzashka.
Space is limited! Please RSVP NOW for this free event by emailing dsa.una@drexel.edu
Drexel students also receive CEO credit for attendance!
About the Panel
Jim Walsh, Ph.D, is an expert in international security and a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program (SSP). Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons and terrorism. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program, and is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues.
Geneive Abdo is a fellow and Iran analyst at The Century Foundation (TCF). Before joining TCF, she was a liaison for the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations, a project created by the U.N. Secretary General to improve relations between Western and Islamic societies. Ms. Abdo was a foreign correspondent for many years in the Middle East and the broader Islamic world and was the first American journalist to be based in Tehran since the United States cut off ties with Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She has authored a number of books, including Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 and No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam, among other publications.
Ivanka Barzashka is a research associate with the Strategic Security Program at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Her work focuses on nonproliferation and international security policy, specifically uranium enrichment and gas centrifuge technology. A physicist by education, Ms. Barzashka manages FAS's ongoing interdisciplinary assessment of Iran's nuclear capabilities, along with its nuclear potential, and how these capabilities could be used to manufacture a nuclear weapon.
About Drexel Student Alliance of the UNA-USA
Drexel Student Alliance of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) is a unique student organization aimed at giving Drexel University students and the Philadelphia community the chance to participate actively and engage in conversations on pertinent domestic and global affairs. By collaborating with the Greater Philadelphia chapter of the UNA-USA, the Drexel Student Alliance also strives to serve the Philadelphia public through volunteer activities across the city.
