It must be great to have dialogue, without half of humanity. (I can't make up this stuff!) Shame on the co-organizers, the British Council and the American University of Sharjah! (A recent CFP circulating online, listed the following as plenary speakers: Andrew Briggs, John Hedley Brooke; Philip Clayton; Paul Davies; William Grassie; Nidhal Guessoum; Salman Hameed; Aref Nayed; Zia Sardar; Jean Staune; Mehdi Golshani; Munawar Anees; and Ronald Numbers.)
It can't wait to learn from irate organizers, who will inform me that the cultural sensitivities of the Gulf hosts should be taken into account and that I should stop being such a anachronistic, colonial ass. (Equality and democracy are clearly for spoiled westerners only.)
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