Muslim in America: Fighting Back Against State Surveillance and Repression

Date 

Add to My Calendar Saturday, August 5, 2017 9:00am to 10:15am

Location 

UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
4340 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

CCR senior staff attorney Omar Farah will join a panel at the 2017 National Lawyers’ Guild #Law4thePeopleConvention that will explore recent ways in which Muslims have struggled to safeguard their rights against government surveillance, oppressive legislation and Executive Orders, and bias-based attacks. The panelists will provide guidance for legal activists on how to combat these unrelenting assaults. For more information about the panel, you can visit the NLG convention website.

Speakers

Dr. Maha Hilal, organizer with the DC Justice for Muslims Coalition and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tulane University's Traumatology Institute

Abed A. Ayoub, National Legal & Policy Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South

Omar Farah, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights

Moderated by Amanda Parris

Last modified 

July 28, 2017