Venue:

Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Lower Ground Floor - Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne

Tarek Heggy is a leading liberal political thinker in the Arab world and an international petroleum strategist. His work advances the causes of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advocating them as universal values essential to the region's progress. As as one of the contemporary leading Arab liberal theoreticians, Tarek Heggy has lectured at numerous universities and research centers around the world.

http://www.tarek-heggy.com/English-resume.htm.

This event is organised by the Asia Institute, at the University of Melbourne.