Please join MEF for a webinar with Zainab al-Suwaij today at 1pm EST!
The Middle East Forum cordially invites you to a webinar:
Islamism and Leftism: Converging?
with Zainab al-Suwaij
When Ilhan Omar describes herself as an “intersectional feminist” and Omar Suleiman participates in a pagan ritual, American Islamism is clearly going in new directions. In particular, a Red-Left alliance has been growing for decades. What does each camp hope to achieve in its alliance with the other? Will it succeed or the differences ultimately too deep?
Monday, February 22, 2021 1:00-1:15p.m. EST
Online:
Click here to join just before 1pm EST or Webinar ID: 894 1968 7420 Passcode: 564226 By Phone: US: +1 6465588656,,89419687420#,,564226#,,#
Zainab Al-Suwaij is executive director of the American Islamic Congress, founded after 9/11 to promote interfaith relations in the West and democratic values in the Muslim world. The Washington Post has described her as someone “who favors designer head scarves” while being “one of the few women to take up arms in a 1991 guerrilla uprising against [Saddam] Hussein.” She attended Southern Connecticut University and taught at Yale. Ms. Al-Suwaij lives in the DC area.
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.
