Foreign Policy Expert to Speak at Yale on Women as Economic Force in Middle East

Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, will speak at Yale on February 13 about the political and economic impact of women in the Middle East.

Her talk is titled “The Importance of Women to Economic and Political Development in the Middle East and Southwest Asia: Lessons from Egypt and Pakistan.”

Sponsored by the International Security Studies program and the Women Faculty Forum at Yale, the talk is free and open to the public. It will take place at 4 p.m. in Room 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.