Journalist Steve Negus will give a lecture titled Iraq: A Civil War Averted, or Interrupted? Wednesday Nov. 18th at 8pm at the Faculty Staff Club (Case Center).  Negus, who is on campus as part of the Greenberg Middle East Scholars-in-Residence Program,  has been covering the war in Iraq for the Ihe Financial Times and The Economist since September 2004.

How did the US invasion of Iraq bring the country to the brink of civil war? As US troops withdraw, will the country continue to stabilize, or will it slide back into full-scale communal violence? This talk will investigate the causes of the 2004-2007 sectarian conflict, the new strategies chosen by both Iraqi political movements and by the US military which led to a reduction in the bloodshed, and prospects for the future.