Thursday, November 4 / 4 PM / Oakes Mural Room
Carl Rudbeck works as a journalist and public intellectual in Sweden, and is a scholar of Arabic, political culture, and comparative literature. He worked for twelve years as the literary editor of the Svenska Dagbladet, a Stockholm daily, where he is currently a political columnist. Since 1991 he has been a fellow at Timbro, a free-market think tank in Sweden. His publications with Timbro include books on neo-liberalism and on global culture. In 2004 he chaired a Swedish parliamentary commission on Islam in Sweden.