Meeting Speaker for September 9, 2014

Our meeting speaker for next Tuesday will be Dr. Ayad Al-Qazzaz.  With so much in the news regarding the situation in the Middle East, Dr. Al-Qazzaz can help us be more informed.

Ayad Al-Qazzaz is a professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento. He received his degrees from the University of Baghdad and the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on the Middle East societies and cultures. He was an associate editor of Pacific Sociological Review and was on advisory Board of the Journal of Military and political sociology. He was the past president of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento and the president of the Middle East Cultural Association of Cal. State University, Sacramento, he also is the author of several books. Dr. Al-Qazzaz has lectured widely throughout the US, Middle East and England. He produced a half an hour TV show titled “Focus on the Middle East" for the Access Channel in Sacramento for five years in late 1990’s.