Scholar to discuss history of Pakistan at Sept. 19 Rice lecture

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Historian Manan Ahmed will speak Sept. 19 on “Prophecy, Apocalypse and Selling the Pakistani Dream, 1947-2010” at Sewall Hall, Room 301.

	MANAN AHMED

The lecture, which begins at 4 p.m., will focus on the history of modern Pakistan, a nation of growing importance to the United States.

Ahmed is an assistant professor of Islam in South Asia at the Institut f