BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30867@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230424T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230424T183000 DTSTAMP:20230410T202312Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-racial-muslim-with-sahar-aziz/ SUMMARY:The Racial Muslim with Sahar Aziz DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly continues its Race and Religion series with the next spring 2023 signature book talk featuring Sahar Aziz\, Rutgers Profe ssor of Law\, Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar\, founding Director of t he Center for the Security\, Race\, and Rights and acclaimed author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.\n\nProfessor Azi z will be in conversation with Deborah Amos\, Ferris Professor of Journali sm in Residence at Princeton University and Award-Winning International Co rrespondent for National Public Radio.\n\nDoors open at 5:00 PM. Light sna cks and refreshments will be provided and signed books will be available f or purchase.\n\nThe event will be livestreamed starting at 5:30pm. Regi ster to receive the link to watch this critical book talk on our YouTube C hannel.\n\nAbout the Presenter and Moderator:\n\nSahar Aziz is Professor o f Law\, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar\, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. Professor Aziz’s schol arship adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine intersections of na tional security\, race\, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impa ct of national security laws and policies on racial\, ethnic\, and religio us minorities in the U.S. Her research also investigates the relationship between authoritarianism\, terrorism\, and rule of law in the Middle East. She is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security\, Race\, and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) and a faculty affiliate of the African American Studies Department at Rutgers University-Newark Prof essor Aziz serves on the Rutgers-Newark Chancellor's Commission on Diversi ty and Transformation as well as the editorial board of the Arab Law Quart erly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Professor Aziz teaches courses on national security\, critical race theory\, Islamophobia \, evidence\, torts\, and Middle East law.\n\nProfessor Aziz is the recipi ent of numerous awards including a Soros Equality Fellowship (2021)\, A Ne w America Middle Eastern and North African American National Security and Foreign Policy Next Generation Leader (2020)\, the Research Making an Impa ct Award by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (2017)\, the Derrick Bell Award from the American Association of Law Schools Minority Section (2015)\, and an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Educa tion (2015). She serves on the board of directors of ReThink Media\, the P roject on Democracy in the Middle East (POMED)\, and Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN).\n\nProfessor Aziz's ground breaking book The Racial Mus lim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom examines how religious bigotry racializes immigrant Muslims through a historical and comparative approach . She has published over thirty academic articles and book chapters. Her a rticles are published in the Harvard National Security Journal\, Washingto n and Lee Law Review\, Nebraska Law Review\, George Washington Internation al Law Review\, Penn State Law Review\, and the Texas Civil Rights and Civ il Liberties Journal.\n\nProfessor Aziz’s commentary has appeared in the New York Times\, CNN.com\, Carnegie Endowment’s Sada Journal\, Middle E ast Institute\, Foxnews.com\, World Politics Review\, Houston Chronicle\, Austin Statesmen\, The Guardian\, and Christian Science Monitor. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared on CNN\, BBC World\, PBS\, CSPAN\ , MSNBC\, Fox News\, and Al Jazeera English. She is an editor of the Race and the Law Profs blog. She previously served on the board of the ACLU of Texas and as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution – Doha.\n \nPrior to joining legal academia\, Professor Aziz served as a Senior Poli cy Advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she worked on law and policy at the intersection of national security and civil liberties. Professor Aziz beg an her legal career as a litigation associate for WilmerHale after which s he was an associate at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll PLLP in Washington\ , D.C. where she litigated Title VII class actions on behalf of plaintiffs .\n\nProfessor Aziz earned a J.D. and M.A. in Middle East Studies from the University of Texas where she was as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. Professor Aziz clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis on the U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland.\n\nIn 2021\, Professor Azi z was named a Soros Equality Fellow for her work in race\, policing\, and national security.\n\nDeborah Amos is the Ferris Professor of Journalism i n Residence at Princeton University and an award-winning international cor respondent for National Public Radio. Her reporting on the Middle East and refugees in the U.S. is regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition\, W eekend Edition\, and All Things Considered. She has recently covered the S yrian and Iraqi refugee crises\, the economy in the Middle East\, and the Arab youth surge. She previously reported for ABC’s Nightline and PBS’ s Frontline.\n\nAmos is the author of two books: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Po wer\, Exile\, and Upheaval in the Middle East\, and Lines in the Sand: Des ert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World. She has won several major jo urnalism honors\, including a Courage in Journalism Award from the Interna tional Women’s Media Foundation\, a George Foster Peabody Award\, an Edw ard R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award\, and an Emmy.\n\nWith thanks to Rutgers Continuing Studies Media Productions for their support of this eve nt ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/04/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_481614699_791922391283_1_original.jpe g CATEGORIES:#arabic,Advocacy,Arab Identity,Arab-U.S. Relations,Community,culture,Lecture,National Arab American Heritage Month LOCATION:Rutgers University-Newark Dana Library\, 185 University Avenue\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States GEO:40.742092;-74.174915 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS= 185 University Avenue\, Ne wark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Rutgers Unive rsity-Newark Dana Library:geo:40.742092,-74.174915 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR