Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly twenty books, including
The Great Transformation,
A History of God, and
The Spiral Staircase, a spiritual memoir. Chair, Stephen Sackur, presenter of BBC's HARDtalk.
Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a columnist at the
Daily Beast.
Emile Nakhleh, Former director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the CIA
Timothy Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
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A panel on `Religion, Religious Parties, and Democracy`. Chair: David Cuthell. Discussant: Mirjam Kunkler. Panelists: Stathis Kalyvas and Alfred Stepan