the ICC & the Darfur Crisis Speakers: Dr Gibreil Ibrahim Mohamed Fediel*, Economic Advisor to the Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan Dr Khalid AlMubarak**, Media Councillor, Sudan Embassy Tuesday, 12th August 2008 Organised jointly by Open Discussions and The Gulf Cultural Club

a lecture by * Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor, The Times hosted by the Gulf Cultural Club and Open Discussions on Tuesday 24th June

Tuesday, 15th July @ 6.30pm Abrar House, Edgware Road, London W2 What is the point of becoming a councillor? Does it make any real difference? For many, local politics has been the poorer relation to the glamorous world represented in the national, parliamentary stage. Yet, a lot of our lives are affected by what happens in local councils up and down the country. Is it time, therefore, for British Muslims to think about making a make a practical difference at a local level?

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- Inside the Middle East Peace Process from Rabin's Death to Camp David AUTHOR: Ahmed Qurie With new talks in the Middle East Peace Process about to begin, the shadows of previous negotiations fall heavily across all involved. In this powerful and absorbing testimony,

- Iraq and the Revival of Shia Islam AUTHOR: Nicholas Pelham Nicolas Pelham explores how America's overthrow of the Baath partyin Iraq, and the failures of Washington's post-invasion regime spawned a Shiite revolution in the heartland of the Arab world.