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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>The study is based at UW not about UW…<br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:dbesner@uwaterloo.ca" target="_parent">Derek Besner</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:fmcalister@uwaterloo.ca" target="_parent">Fiona McAlister</a>, <a href="mailto:artsannounce@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_parent">Arts Announce (artsannounce@artsserv2.uwaterloo.ca) [artsannounce@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca]</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:uw_wlu_grad@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_parent">uw_wlu_grad@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="">
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<p>hmmm.... so AA is a co PI "for a study of Canadian foreign fighters at the University of Waterloo". Really? a study of foreign fighters who are at Waterloo? Perhaps the RCMP should be called? Or our own Police Dept?
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<div id="divRpF836096" style="direction: ltr;"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Artsannounce [artsannounce-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca] on behalf of Fiona McAlister [fmcalister@uwaterloo.ca]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Arts Announce (artsannounce@artsserv2.uwaterloo.ca) [artsannounce@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca]<br>
<b>Cc:</b> uw_wlu_grad@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Department of Religious Studies Public Lecture - What is ISIS? Why do Canadians Join?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="4">What is ISIS? </font></span></b><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4">Why do Canadians Join?</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><font face="Verdana" size="3">Date: Thursday, March 19, 3:30-5:00, with questions to follow.</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><font face="Verdana" size="3">Location: AL 211 </font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="left: -6px; top: 27px; width: 718px; height: 29px; position: relative; z-index: 251659264;"><img width="718" height="2" tabindex="-1"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="3">r.
Lorne Dawson, Sociology and Legal Studies, UW and Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam, Dalhousie University</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">In the last two years there has been much </font></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: medium;">discussion in the media about "foreign </span><span style="font-size: medium;">fighters,”
who have chosen to travel to </span></font><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">Northern Africa and the Middle East to fight in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">conflicts that do not directly involve their </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">countries.
We will examine some of their life </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">stories, push and pull factors, and ask a simple</span></p>
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<b>what makes them do it?</b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3">The presentation will put a very human face to those willing to accept the ultimate sacrifice to perpetrate very inhumane and dehumanizing acts.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Lorne Dawson is a Professor in Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Waterloo, he is the Co-Director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society,
and the co-editor of <i>Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond.</i></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Amarnath Amarasingam is Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University and the Co-Principle Investigator for a study of Canadian foreign fighters based at the University of Waterloo.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Refreshments will be served</font></b></p>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Sponsored by the University of Waterloo
<b>Department of Religious Studies</b>.</font><font size="4"></font></span></p>
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