Date
Location
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