The American Islamic Congress and Project Nur Present
Garbage Dreams Thursday, February 4th at 6:00pm
Hult University
1 Education Street, Cambridge, MA 02141
Panelists:
Tarek Masoud, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Lydia Khalil(pictured right), Lydia Khalil has served as a counter-terror analyst for
the New York Police Department and is currently an International Affairs fellow at
the Council on Foreign Relations
Sponsor:
A Jihad for Love Monday, March 1st at 6:30pm
Boston University Photonics Center, Room 206
8 Saint Mary's St., Boston, MA 02215 (map)
Panelists: Jared Bowen(pictured right) is an Emmy-winning reporter with WGBH-TV’s nightly news magazine program, Greater Boston with Emily Rooney.
Parvez Sharma is an Indian artist and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and othermedia outlets. A Jihad for Love, his first feature documentary, has been released
in over thirty countries and won five international awards.
Yusuf Nasrullah, who's life is at the confluence of the Shia-Sunni tradition (Persian mother and Pakistani father) as he juggles his religious doctrines with his sexuality.
Three Times Divorced Wednesday, March 24th at 6:30pm Boston University College Sargent College, Room 102
635 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215(map)
Panelists: Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor of Women’s Studies at UMass Boston who specializes in transnational feminist theory and women’s social movements in South Asia.
Halleh Mahini (pictured right) is an Iranian woman who personally challenged the country’s shari’a codes denying her custody of her son. She will share firsthand testimony as a woman who successfully struggled to secure basic rights in a theocracy.
Sponsor:
Bloody Cartoons & Find Heaven Tuesday, April 13th at 6:00pm Harvard University Fong Auditorium at Boylston Hall
In Harvard Yard via Massachusetts Ave(map) Panelists: James Smith, the Boston Globe national political editor, will serve as moderator.
Jytte Klausen (pictured right) is Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis and an affiliate at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. Her new book “The Cartoons That Shook the World” recently became the subject of international controversy when Yale University Press refused to reprint images of Muhammad.
Daniyal Noorani is a local entrepreneur and artist who grew up in Pakistan before coming to the US to attend university in Wisconsin. He currently works on business development at a biotech company in Cambridge, producing films and writing songs in his spare time.
Shame Friday, April 23rd at 6:30pm
Suffolk Law School
120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
Panelist:
Mohammed Naqvi was born in Montreal and grew up in Canada, the United States and Pakistan. He directed the documentary Terror's Children. Shame is his first feature-length documentary.
Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies. He has been professionally involved with human rights and international affairs for 30 years as an activist, scholar and journalist.
Judy Norsigian is the executive director and a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (which does business under the name Our Bodies Ourselves). She speaks and writes frequently on a wide range of women's health concerns, and has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including OPRAH, the TODAY show, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
