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November 19, 2001

'Muslims in the Middle' is topic of forum November 27

By Jennifer McNulty

***This event has been cancelled because Agha Saeed was invited to attend a meeting that day with President Bush about the future of South Asia. Efforts are under way to reschedule Saeed's appearance at UCSC.***

The civil rights of Muslims in the United States will be discussed during a free public forum on Tuesday, November 27, at 7:30 p.m. The forum, "Muslims in the Middle: Ethnic Profiling, Civil Rights, and America's Muslim Communities," will be held in UCSC's Classroom Unit 1.

The featured speaker will be Agha Saeed, president of the American Muslim Alliance, one of the first Muslim organizations in the United States to condemn the September 11 attacks. Saeed is a visiting faculty member at UC Berkeley and teaches speech at California State University, Hayward.

Saeed, who was profiled in the October 3 New York Times, met with President Bush and other Muslim leaders on September 26 to discuss the civil rights concerns of Arab and Muslim Americans. Most recently, he addressed the World Affairs Council of Northern California on balancing constitutional rights and security in the United States today.

For more information, contact Julie Jacobs at the UCSC Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at (831) 459-5743.

UCSC sponsors of the forum are the Ad Hoc Faculty Working Group on Current Events; the Institute for Humanities Research; the Center for Cultural Studies; the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies; the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community; the Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences; College Nine; and the Office of the Chancellor. The event is made possible in part by a grant from the September 11 Community Dialogue Fund of the California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Back to: Terrorist Crisis directory	November 19, 2001 'Muslims in the Middle' is topic of forum November 27 By Jennifer McNulty *This event has been cancelled because Agha Saeed was invited to attend a meeting that day with President Bush about the future of South Asia. Efforts are under way to reschedule Saeed's appearance at UCSC.* The civil rights of Muslims in the United States will be discussed during a free public forum on Tuesday, November 27, at 7:30 p.m. The forum, "Muslims in the Middle: Ethnic Profiling, Civil Rights, and America's Muslim Communities," will be held in UCSC's Classroom Unit 1. The featured speaker will be Agha Saeed, president of the American Muslim Alliance, one of the first Muslim organizations in the United States to condemn the September 11 attacks. Saeed is a visiting faculty member at UC Berkeley and teaches speech at California State University, Hayward. Saeed, who was profiled in the October 3 New York Times, met with President Bush and other Muslim leaders on September 26 to discuss the civil rights concerns of Arab and Muslim Americans. Most recently, he addressed the World Affairs Council of Northern California on balancing constitutional rights and security in the United States today. For more information, contact Julie Jacobs at the UCSC Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at (831) 459-5743. UCSC sponsors of the forum are the Ad Hoc Faculty Working Group on Current Events; the Institute for Humanities Research; the Center for Cultural Studies; the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies; the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community; the Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences; College Nine; and the Office of the Chancellor. The event is made possible in part by a grant from the September 11 Community Dialogue Fund of the California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.