Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs

Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World

S. Abdallah Schleifer

Delivered on September 26, 2006, in Philadelphia, this lecture was the 11th of the annual Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs, established with a contribution from John M. Templeton, Jr.

S. Abdallah Schleifer is the Washington and national bureau chief of Al Arabiya news channel, professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo, visiting scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, also in Washington, D.C., and an FPRI Senior Fellow.

For a text version of this talk, see Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World.