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UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE ARAB MEDIA CENTRE GUEST LECTURE By Lawrence Pintak* "America, Islam and the War of Ideas" At The Boardroom, University of Westminster Regent Street Campus 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW (Nearest Tube station: Oxford Circus) On Tuesday 30th January 2007 from 6pm to 8pm Lawrence Pintak is the author of Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas, published in 2006 by Pluto Press, which also published his earlier book Seeds of Hate: How America's Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad (2003). A veteran journalist, who has reported for CBS, ABC and The San Francisco Chronicle, and former Visiting Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, he is currently Director of the Adham Centre for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo and publisher and editor of the journal Arab Media and Society, formerly called the Journal of Transnational Broadcasting Studies. -------------------------------------------- -- Salvatore Scifo Communications, MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Communication and Media Research Institute School of Media, Arts & Design University of Westminster Watford Road, Northwick Park Harrow HA1 3TP MeCCSA Postgraduate Network http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/