2:42 p.m., April 19, 2010----Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will be the speaker as the 2010 Global Agenda series continues at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 21, in Mitchell Hall on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.

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The Global Agenda series is sponsored by UD's Center for Political Communication with this year's theme being “Understanding Political Islam.”

Gerges' special interests include Islam and the political proves, mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups.

He is the author of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Military and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global.

His topic April 21 will be “Understanding Islamism.”

The series will continue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays in Mitchell Hall as follows:

April 28 -- Naif Al-Mutawa, “Political Islam: The Graphic Novel.” Al-Mutawa is the creator of THE 99, the first superheroes of an Islamic archetype. His contact with prisons and with people tortured for their religious and political beliefs led to his writing a UNESCO prize-winning children's tale on tolerance. Al-Mutawa holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University with degrees from Tufts and Columbia universities.

May 12 -- Steve Coll, “Osama Bin Laden's Legacy.” Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, president of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post. He is author of six books, including two about Bin Laden.

The Global Agenda series is presented by the World Affairs Council of Wilmington and the University of Delaware Institute for Global Studies, Department of Communication and Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Ralph Begleiter, director of the Center for Political Communication, moderates the presentations, which are free and open to the public.