Why did the United States invade Iraq?

French-Lebanese journalist Antoine Sfeir will respond to the question by recalling the history of the region, from the Sykes-Picot Accords to today during a a free, public lecture in English at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5 in UAB Humanities Building, Room 105.

Sfeir is the author of a series of studies on the Arab world for the French government. He has written works on religion, Islam and Islamism and more. In 2006, in collaboration with Nicole Bacharan, he published a book on the Middle East, “Américains, Arabes: la confrontation” (Seuil, 2006) as well as “Vers l’Orient compliqué.” (Grasset, 2006).

The event is sponsored by the UAB Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures and the Alliance Française of Birmingham.