DEBORAH HORAN is a Journalist with The Chicago Tribune and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Deborah Horan’s areas of interest are Iran, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. foreign and economic policy in the Middle East, Middle East politics, and the Arab media. Currently reporting for The Chicago Tribune, Ms. Horan covers the Middle Eastern community in Chicago. Since March 2003, she has focused on the Arab world’s reaction to the Iraq war and has spent time in Cairo, Beirut, and Baghdad. Previously, she was the Jerusalem-based correspondent for The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Inter Press Service. She was a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan and has written for magazines including Newsweek, The Washington Monthly, Progressive Woman, and Psychology Today. In 1999, she was chosen as a finalist for the Livingston Award for outstanding young journalists. Her work has been chosen for submission to the Pulitzer board.  She has spoken to classes in
journalism, women's studies, political science, Middle Eastern history, oil economies, and international relations.  She will be on campus for the week of October 8 - 12 as a Visiting Fellow.

Dr. FRANCIS E. PETERS (Ph.D. Princeton 1967) is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and History at NYU, focusing on comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  His most recent books include Islam, A Guide for Jews and Christians (2003), The Monotheists: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conflict and Competition (2004), The Children of Abraham (2005), and The Voice, the Work, the Books (2007).