Continuing our Middle East Studies (MEST) lunch series, Assistant Professor of Religion Peter Schadler shared with students and faculty insights into research from his recent book “John of Damascus and Islam: Christian Heresiology and the Intellectual Background to Earliest Christian-Muslim Relations” on 3/19/2019. Here’s a photo of our speaker with MEST Coordinator David Commins. 
Coordinator of Middle East Studies and Senior Lecturer at Dickinson College (2009-Present) Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State (1987-2009) Specialty: Arabic Language and Culture; Public Diplomacy; Second Language Acquisition; Applied Linguistics. Enjoys: Reading Literature; Watching Movies and Programs by John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah; and Sam B; Listening to Music, Dancing, and Walking