Race and Racism in Africa and the Middle East: A Series sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program
In the first event of this series, Dr. Mara Leichtman, Associate Professor in the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University, will speak on Race, Foreign Policy and Friendship: 50 Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations.
Senegal was one of the first African countries to establish diplomatic relations with Kuwait and is now the largest African recipient of Kuwaiti development funds. This talk will dispel the binary between Gulf “donor” and African “aid recipient.” In so doing it explores how the interplay of “soft power” – Kuwaiti humanitarianism and Senegalese diplomacy – developed into a unique, longstanding and mutually-beneficial model of Arab-African cooperation.
To register: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldeGqqTgsHtaVnVTjHyxf-MG_c7ChEKoj