9.00 – 9.30am
Registration and Coffee/Teas/Biscuits

9.30 – 10.00 am
Welcoming Remarks / Background to Workshop
Dr Michelle Pace, Principal Investigator, British Academy project on A 'Modern' Islamist Democracy? Perceptions of Democratization in the Arab-Mediterranean World

10.00 – 11.30 am Panel 1.

• The Importance of Perceptions. Understandings of Democracy in Palestine and Egypt
  CHAIR: Dr Haifaa Jawad, Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Religion and Theology, University of Birmingham
  DISCUSSANT: Dr Nicola Pratt, Lecturer in Comparative Politics and International Relations, University of East Anglia
• The Muslim Brothers between Continuity, Interaction, and Change
  Dr Omar Ashour, Lecturer, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
• Democracy promotion in the context of an occupied nation? The case of Palestine.
  Dr Michelle Pace, Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Fellow, Political Science and International Studies Department, University of Birmingham 

BREAK 11.30 – 12.00

12.00 – 13.30 Panel II.

• Europe, Enlightenment & Democracy: Is religion a threat to rationality and science?
  CHAIR: Ahmed Badawi, Project Director (Israel/Palestine) Oxford Research Group, Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS and PhD candidate, Humboldt University
  DISCUSSANT: Professor Stuart Croft, Professor of International Security, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
• The intersection of religion and democracy: Islamist Discourses.
  Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study for Democracy, University of Westminster
• The programmes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and Hamas: a Media/Politics perspective,
  Dr Lina Khatib, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London

LUNCH 13.30 – 15.00

15.00 – 17.00 Roundtable Discussion

Contexts, Conditions for Engaging Islamists in the EU’s democracy promotion efforts
MODERATOR: Dr Asaf Siniver, Lecturer in International Relations, POLSIS, University of Birmingham

SPEAKERS
Ahmed Badawi, Project Director (Israel/Palestine) Oxford Research Group, Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS and PhD candidate, Humboldt University

Dr Maria Holt, Lecturer in the Democracy and Islam Programme at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

Dr Aletta J Norval, Reader in Political Theory, Department of Government, University of Essex

Closing Remarks: Dr Michelle Pace