Dr. Richard E. Hennessey, the Director of Merrimack College's Islamic and Middle Eastern 
Studies Program, is pleased to announce that Professor Houchang Chehabi of Boston University 
will be speaking at the college at 7:00 pm, Thursday, October 25 in the college's Cascia Hall. 
The subject of his presentation will be the role played by Iran in Lebanon.

Professor Chehabi is a specialist in International Law and in Middle Eastern Politics and 
Cultural History and has a particular expertise in Iran and Lebanon. With a License from 
the University de Caen, a Diplome from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and an 
M.A. and a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and UCLA and 
has held both Alexander von Humboldt and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. Professor Chehabi 
has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations and has authored two books, 
Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: the Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah 
and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). 
He has also co-edited Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995) and 
Sultanistic Regimes (1998).

Professor Chehabi's presentation is the second in a series of lectures on Islam and the 
Middle East that the college's Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Program is sponsoring. 
It follows upon last spring's highly successful presentation on the Shiites of Iraq by 
Professor Roy Mottahedeh of Harvard University.

The public is welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

For directions, please go to http://www.merrimack.edu/front.php, clicking on Welcome, 
Visiting Merrimack, and then Directions and Campus Map. 
Or call (978) 837-5277.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with Dr. Hennessey 
at 978-837-5277 or richard.hennessey@merrimack.edu.