November 19, 2001
Contact: Jennifer McNulty (831) 459-2495; jmcnulty@cats.ucsc.edu

"Muslims in the Middle" is topic of UCSC forum November 27

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
SANTA CRUZ, CA--The public is invited to attend a free forum on the civil rights of Muslims in the United States 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 Classroom Unit 1 on the UC Santa Cruz campus.

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.

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