2005-2006

News Release

REF NO.: 45

SUBJECT: PSA: Visiting lecturer takes a closer look at suicide bombers

DATE: October 14, 2005

What motivates a suicide bomber? Why has the number of incidents of suicide bombing increased since the early 1980s? These are questions that Dr. Robert Brym, professor of sociology at the Universityof Toronto, will answer when he comes to Memorial’s St. John’scampus to lecture on Suicide Bombing as Strategy and Interaction: The Case of the Second Intifada. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 1-2 p.m.in the Arts and AdministrationBuilding, room

AA-1043. Members of the public are invited to attend.

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