What is a Muslim State? Illiberal Secularity in the Tunisian and Egyptian Young Republics

Harvard University's Initiative for Religion and International Affairs, which is funded in part by the Luce Initiative for Religion and International Affairs, has organized a seminar on the question of secularism in Tunisia and Egypt. Speaker Malika Zeghal, who is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard will discuss the complex interaction between the Islamic and the secular in these two states. She will be joined by Noah Feldman, a professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.