<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Diálogo entre Civilizaciones COLSAN
   
 
   

 

 

• Abdulwahed Hassan Mohsen Al-Roubaiey

o Governor of Al-Dhalea, Republic of Yemen


• Ahmad Sadri

 

Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest Collage, in Illinois, U.S.A. Author of various publications on Islam. Choice Magazing selected his book Max Weber's Sociology of Intellectuals as one of the most outstanding academic books of 1993.

 

• Alberto Athié Gallo

 

o Philosopher and theologian. He was catholic priest, and occupied the Executive Secretariat of the Episcopal Commission of Social Pastoral; along with the bishops wrote up the pastoral letter of the encounter with Jesus Christ to the encounter with all. At the moment He is vice-president of an organization of financial communitarian services and develops an agricultural project with the farmers of the State of Mexico.


• Antonio Navalón

 

o Journalist by profession, he carried out the height of his activities during the Spanish democratic transition. Creator and promoter of various cultural programs, such as “Tijuana, the Third Nation,” the largest open-air art exposition in the world. He is currently Representative of Grupo PRISA – Santillana in Mexico. Author of several books on Spanish History.

 

• Carlos Martínez Assad

 

He has a PhD in Political Sociology by the University of Paris. He was Director of the Institute of Social Investigations of UNAM 1983-1989.


• Dong Nguyen Huu

 

o Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), he was coordinator of the Project of Assistence to Electoral Observation of the United Nations Development Programme.

 

• Dudley Ankerson

 

o PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has been a member of the British Diplomatic Service, with stays in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Hungary. He is currently a Consultant to The British Foreign Office in Latin America. Among his publications, “Agrarian Warlord” stands out.


• Fariba Adelkhah

 

o Anthropologist from the National Foundation of Political Science – Center of International Researches and Studies (FNSP-CERI), specialist in political sciences on Shiite groups and Islam in oriental civilizations. Currently researches religious space, public, and modernity of Muslim societies; women in Islam and political anthropology of Iran in Shiite communities of the Gulf.

• Farid Kahhat

 

o PhD in Government, specialist in Latin American security agenda, compared foreign policy of South America; old and new, the new international political order. Researcher for the Economic Research and Teaching Centre (CIDE).


• Gabriel Guerra Castellanos

 

o Studied Political Science at the Free University in West Berlin, Germany. International Analyst, political commentator, diplomat and consultant, with a wide professional trajectory in both the public and private sectors.

• Gilles Veinstein

 

o Graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Member of the Collège de France and expert historian on the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world. Co-Director of Turcica, a magazine of Turkish studies.

 

• Graciela de la Lama

 

o Embassador and Academic at the UNAM. Founder of the Latinamerican Association for Asia and Africa Studies. She is a specialist in India studies and its relations with Mexico and other countries. Holds various publications, among them “India as an Emerging Power.”

• Guillermo Zermeño Padilla

 

o PhD in Social Sciences from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Historian, professor and researcher at the El Colegio de México. Author of, among many others, “The Modern Culture of History, a Theoretical and Historiographical Approximation”. General Editor of the Association of European Latinamerican Historians.

• Henry Laurens

 

o Master in History. He was a volunteer for the National Active Service at the University of Kuwait. Scholar at the French Institute for Arab Studies at Damas, Syria. Specialist in Islam, Egypt and general Arab world studies. He has written various books, among them “The Palestine Issue, the invention of the Holy Land.”

 

• Iqbal Riza

 

o Researcher for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Religious Issues at the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, France. He has carried out a variety of anthropological research in Saudi Arabia and The Mecca, as well as anthropological research missions in the Kurd region, Eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq.


• Jan de Vos

 

o Anthropologist and historian, born in Antwerp, Belgium. PhD in History from the Catholic University of Louvain. He has been dedicated to studying the colonial past and more recently southeastern Mexico in general and Chiapas in particular. He has written several books on the Lacandona Jungle and other topics related to his stay in that region. Researcher for the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology of the Southeast (CIESAS-Sureste).

 

• Javier Sicilia

 

o Catholic writer, director and editor of Ixtus, spirit and culture magazine. Professor of Literature and Communication at the Universidad Autónoma de Morelos and the Universidad La Salle in Cuernavaca. He has been editor of the General Direction of Cultural Dirección General de Diffusion at the UNAM. He has published numerous titles, among others: “Concepción Cabrera de Arnida, the lover of Christ”.

• Jean-François Leguil Bayart

 

o Researcher for the Centre des Etudes et Recherche International and Sciences Po, who has also worked in Africa and currently Works on Iran around topics such as identity, religión and globalization.

• Jorge Durand

 

o Was a member of the Commission of Specialists at the IFE for the study of modalities of Mexican voting abroad. Anthropologist and PhD in Geography and Territorial Order, specialist in Mexico-U.S.A. migratory issues. He is a researcher for the Center for Research on Social Movements at the University of Guadalajar.

• José Luis Valdés

 

o PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, England. Currently Director of the Center for North American Research Centro at the UNAM. Expert in American studies and Mexico-U.S.A. relations. Designated by the Senate of the Republic as Technical Secretary for NAFTA assessment.

 

• Juan Ramón de la Fuente

 

o After being a professor at the School of Medicine and director of the University Health Research Program, he was named coordinator of Scientific Research in 1989; director of the School of Medicine from 1991 to 1994; as well as Rector of the UNAM as of 1999.


• León Olivé

 

o Philosopher, specialist in multiculturalism issues. Researcher for the institute of Philosophical Research at the UNAM.

 

• Luis Mesa Delmonte

 

o Cuban, specialist in international security, and Iran studies. Researcher for the Center for Asia and Africa Studies, the Colegio de Mexico.


• Mahmoud Sadri

 

o PhD in Sociology from the New School University, New York. Currently Associate Professor at the Texas Woman´s University in Denton, Texas. Has written numerous books on Islam, Iran, and migration, including Migration Dynamics: A Theoretical and Substantive Reader.


• Manuel Ruiz

 

o PhD from the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, Italy. Was director of the Center for Asia and North Africa Studies at the Colegio de Mexico and Adjunct Secretary, 3rd International Conference on Human Sciences in Asia and Africa. Has written numerous publications on political authority, the Islamic state, the Quran, the Iran-Irak war, among others. Currently at press is his book Islam and the West from Latin America.

• Margarita Dalton


o PhD in History from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her areas of research have been mainly economic antrhopology, culture and ideology. Currently is a researcher for the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology. (CIESAS).

• Marianne Franklin

 

o PhD in Social Schiences, specialist in social and political theory, international relations, feminism and postcolonialism. Interested in interrelations among class, ethnicity and gender in the globalized world. Researcher at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek in the Netherlands.

 

• Maricarmen Serra Puche

o Coordinator of Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

 

• Marta Eugenia García Ugarte

 

o She is a researcher at the Institute of Social Investigations of the UNAM. She is a specialist in social, political and regional history. At the moment she develops the project Liberalism and catholic Church in Mexico (1831-1940), where she studies the relationship between the liberal and conservative factions and the Catholic hierarchy of the archdiocese of Mexico.

 

 

• Olga Pellicer

 

o Embassador and Academic. Member of the Foreign Policy Consulting Commission and Alternative Representative for Mexico in the UN, Mexican Ambassador to Greece and Austria. Professor and Researcher at the Colegio de Mexico and Representative of Mexico before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Recently named by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, as a member of the College of Commissioners of the UNMOVIC. Currently professor at ITAM.

• Porfirio Muñoz Ledo


o PhD in Political Science and Constitutional Law at the University of Paris. Politician and academic, specialist in America and Europe. Has held numerous public offices, among others, Ambassador for Mexico to the EU. Currently President of the Globalization Latin American Center, (CELAG), and the Association for State Reform.


• Rosa María Martínez de Codes

 

o Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, specialist in Spanish American social and political history, religious freedom in the Spanish and American juridical norms of the 20th century, political ideologies, transformations of property regimen in America.

• Shlomo Ben-Ami

 

o Academic, Israel’s first ambassador to Spain, member of the Israeli delegation in Madrid for the peace conference, delegation coordinator for multilateral Middle East refugee talks in Canada. Former Minister of Public Security and chancellor of Israel. Conducted secret negotiations with Abu Ala in Stockholm. Participated with Prime Minister Barak at the Camp David Summit, and lead the Israel team in Palestinian negotiations.


• Tokiyo Tanaka

 

She is licensed in Literature by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of WASEDA, Tokyo, Japan.