Stanford University's Center for South Asia,
Division of International, Comparative & Area Studies with Friends of South Asia, Pakistanis at Stanford, and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center present:
AYESHA SIDDIQA
Author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
America's Pakistan vs. Pakistan's Pakistan:
Searching for Options
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 7 p.m.
Building 380, Room 380-X
Dr. Siddiqa received her doctorate in War Studies from King's College, London. Her first book, Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99 In Search of a Policy (2001) analyzes defense decision-making in Pakistan. Her second book, Military Inc, Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (2007) looks at Pakistan's politics through the prism of elite interests and the military economy. She writes for various Pakistani newspapers including a regular column in the Daily Times. She contributes to international academic journals and has been a correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly. Dr. Siddiqa was a visiting fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute; the first Pakistani scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, 2004-05; a Ford Fellow; and a research fellow at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, USA. She received the esteemed Mehboobul Haq, Kodikara and Asia Foundation research awards. Based in Islamabad, Dr. Siddiqa is currently Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies at University of Pennsylvania. She is researching the political economy of marginality and extremism in Pakistan for her third book, Military, State and Society in South Asia: Looking Beyond Huntington.
Bldg 380 is "Math Corner" of the main quad, to your right as you face quad from the Oval.
Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-380
For further information: psherpa 'at' stanford.edu
7:30pm
Tuesday, February 12th
Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business
A Documentary Delving Into the Unseen-
Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey
Directed by Sabiha Sumar, Sachithanandam Sathananthan.
Nominated at the Sundance Film Festival, 2008.
“An impressive documentary focused on exploring what democracy might mean for Pakistan. The film has stunningly close access to President Musharraf and illustrates some striking contradictions to what we hear in the media.” – Sundance Film Festival Visitor
“From on-the-street interviews to audiences with religious leaders to dinner with the President of Pakistan, the film takes the temperature of a culture on issues from politics to women's rights.” –IMDB
http://docsource.sundance.org/dinner-with-the-president/
Dinner with the President: A Nation`s Journey
World Documentary
Pakistan, 2007, 80 mins, Color
"Are dictatorship and democracy mutually exclusive? In a country with cultures as ancient and complex as Pakistan's, the answer to what the future holds is not straightforward. Projected to be the world's third-most-populous country by 2050, Pakistan has stood at the crossroads of East and West for centuries. Now in the "nuclear club" and an emerging secular democracy amidst neighboring Islamic theocracies, Pakistan plays a critical role in America's war on terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has long been seen as a key United States ally in the region--a reputation that does not always serve him well in Pakistan.
In Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey, Pakistani filmmakers Sabiha Sumar and Satha Sathananthan request a dinner with their country's leader, and to their surprise, the request is granted. The family dinner with Musharraf and his mother forms the backdrop to a filmic journey through contemporary Pakistan as the filmmakers forego the headlines and search the country for deeper answers."
Sponsored by:
Members of the MBA Class of ’07, GSB
Stanford Film Society
Pakistanis at Stanford