MPAC-WNY Annual Banquet
June 9, 2012
Convention Program
10:00 am
REGISTRATION OPENS
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
PLENARY I - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: POTENTIALS & PITFALLS
- Jerrold Green - President & CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy
- Manal Omar - Director of Iraq, Iran & North African programs, U.S. Institute for Peace Center for Post-conflict Peace and Stability Operations
- Joe Stork - Deputy Director, Human Rights Watch Middle East & North Africa division
- Ahmed Younis - Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
- James Zogby - President & CEO, Arab American Institute
12:45 - 1:45 pm
DHUHR PRAYER & LUNCH BREAK
12:45 - 1:45 pm
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORKING LUNCHEON
Featuring Paul Monteiro, White House Office of Public Engagement
(Separate ticket purchase: $15)
2:00 - 3:15 pm
WORKSHOP - THE INDUSTRY OF HATE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
- Wajahat Ali - Researcher, Center for American Progress & Co-Author of "Fear, Inc."
- Stephen Rohde - Chair of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, President of ICUJP
3:15 - 3:45 pm
ASR PRAYER & BREAK
4:00 - 5:45 pm
PLENARY II - ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS: HELP OR HINDRANCE?
- Geneive Abdo - Director of the Iran Program, The Century Foundation
- Jasser Auda - Associate Professor, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies
- Maher Hathout - Co-Founder & Senior Adviser, Muslim Public Affairs Council
- Haroon Moghul - Fellow, Institute for Social Policy & Understanding
- Yasir Qadhi - Instructor, Al-Maghrib Institute
5:45 pm
MAGHRIB PRAYER & SCREENING OF SHORT FILMS
6:30 - 9:30 pm
ANNUAL BANQUET
Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Cornel West - Professor of Religion at Princeton University and acclaimed author and activist
- Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool - South African Ambassador the U.S.
Community Leadership Award recipients:
- Human Rights Watch
- White House Office of Public Engagement
IN THIS SECTION
- Program
- Speakers
- Hathout, Leading Spokesman
- Abdo, Author & Analyst
- Omar, Muslim Visionary
- Qadhi, Islamic Theologian
- West, Provocative Intellectual
- Zogby, Community Leader
- Rasool, Anti-Apartheid Leader
- Ali, Islamophobia Analyst
- Potok, Award-winning Journalist
- Younis, Influential Muslim
- Auda, Passionate about Islamic Law
- Moghul, Thinking on the Arab Spring
- Rohde, Civil Rights Activist
- Networking Luncheon
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