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Policing Muslims: Resistance and Redemption

  • 417 (Altschul Auditorium) International Affairs Building, Columbia University (map)

"Western Responses to the Torture of Muslims"
4-5:30pm: Keynote address by Sherene Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. 

"The New Muslim Cool"
6-8pm: A screening of the film "The New Muslim Cool," by Jennifer Taylor, with a discussion with Zaheer Ali (Columbia University). 

Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Institute of African Studies; and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; as well as the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding's Center for the Study of American Muslims and George Mason University's Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies.