This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Judy Cochran - Crisis in the Middle East

The Middle East is where the U.S. now wages two wars in
order to acquire oil and stability. The U.S. is also concerned
that the seventeen countries making up the region will be
taken over by Muslim fundamentalists and become a training
ground for terrorists who will target the U.S. and have
another 9/11. These are the perspectives presented by media
pundits and politicians. Dr. Cochran will provide a different
perspective on why the Middle East is exploding in revolts,
revolutions and anti-U.S.protests.
Dr. Cochran holds the E. Desmond Lee Endowed
Professorship of Education at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis. Her experience in the Middle East has resulted in her
selection as Woman Scholar on the Middle East by the Middle
East Studies Association and awards as a Visiting Scholar to

Middle East Studies Centers at the University of Arizona and
the University of Texas. She received two Fulbright
scholarships to Egypt and Turkey and served on the National
Fulbright Board as President and board member. Fifteen of
her 35 publications are concerned with the Middle East
including Educational Roots of Political Crisis in Egypt (2008)
and the forthcoming Democracy in the Middle East; The
Impact of Religion and Education. As a Professor at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dr. Cochran teaches
'Contemporary History of the Middle East" for the Honors
College, "Women in the Middle East" for the History
Department and education courses.
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