John Voll, associate director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, will speak Thursday, April 11, at UCF on the topic 麻豆精品 S淚slam and Democracy in the 21st Century. 麻豆精品 S� The event will be held at 3 p.m. in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union.
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Voll 麻豆精品 S檚 program is made possible by the Al Ghazali Islamic Studies Program, housed in the UCF Global Perspectives Office, in partnership with the UCF College of Arts and Humanities, with the support of the UCF Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies, UCF Middle Eastern Studies Program, UCF Political Science Department and the Global Perspectives Foundation.