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CONTACT:  Mary Anthony
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Aug. 31, 2009

Tickets Required for Fall Distinguished Lecture at Trinity University

SAN ANTONIO – Former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf will headline the Trinity University Distinguished Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, in Laurie Auditorium. His lecture, "The World As I See It," is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and will be limited to two tickets per person. Tickets will be available for pick up at the Laurie Auditorium box office beginning Monday, Sept. 14. For more information about tickets and box office hours call 210-999-8119. The lecture will also be available live via the internet from the Trinity University Web site.

President Musharraf occupied what TIME magazine described as “the most dangerous job in the world,” playing a crucial role in the global war on terror. His revealing memoir, In the Line of Fire, chronicles his struggles for the security and political future of his nation, with high stakes for the world at large.

In the course of his seven years at the helm of affairs in Pakistan, President Musharraf traveled widely all over the world and met many prominent leaders, and many of those leaders came to Pakistan to interact with him. Such top-level interactions allowed him to develop a sense of the geo-strategic realities of the world, and various conflict regions. It also crystallized his views and perceptions of key world issues. President Musharraf articulated one such thought to bring harmony into distraught regions in the form of a “strategy of Enlightened Moderation.”

He had a vision for Pakistan and still believes that it is a nation with all the resources, the potential, and all the human capacity to be transformed into a progressive, moderate, prosperous Islamic state.

The Trinity University Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by an endowment gift from Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Brown of San Antonio.  The Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment gift by Mrs. Flora C. Crichton of San Antonio.

For more information, contact Mary Anthony in the Office of University Communications at 210-999-8441.