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DESCRIPTION:Benefit Iftar for Palestine Center for Public Policy\nSaturday, April 6th, 
 2024, 6 PM | Newark, CA  
 \nhttps://www.iphobiacenter.org/product/benefit-iftar\n\nAbout the 
 Speakers\n\nChris Hedges\nChristopher Hedges is an American journalist, 
 author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. He writes a weekly column at 
 Scheerpost and hosts the program The Chris Hedges Report on The Real News 
 Network.\n\nIn his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war 
 correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, 
 and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 
 to 2005,[1] and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan 
 Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges 
 contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 
 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global 
 terrorism.\n\nHedges produced a weekly column for Truthdig for 14 years 
 until the outlet's hiatus in 2020. His books include War Is a Force That 
 Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 
 Award for Nonfiction; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on 
 America (2007); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); and Days of Destruction, 
 Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco.\n\nSince 2022 
 Hedges had hosted his own topical news commentary program (web series) on 
 The Real News Network, The Chris Hedges Report.\n\n\nProfessor Hatem 
 Bazian\nMiddle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Asian American and Asian 
 Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley. President, 
 International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association\n‍\nHatem 
 Bazian is a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna 
 College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United 
 States. In addition, Prof. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near 
 Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of 
 California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an 
 adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of 
 California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic Law and Society, Islam 
 in America: Communities and Institutions, De-Constructing Islamophobia and 
 Othering of Islam, Religious Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. In 
 addition to Berkeley, Prof. Bazian served as a visiting Professor in 
 Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California 2001-2007 and 
 adviser to the Religion, Politics and Globalization Center at UC 
 Berkeley.\n\nIn Spring 2009, Prof. Bazian founded at Berkeley the 
 Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and 
 Gender, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam 
 and Muslims. Prof. Bazian in Spring 2012 launched the Islamophobia Studies 
 Journal, which is published bi-annually through a collaborative effort 
 between the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center 
 for Race and Gender at the University of California at Berkeley, the Arab 
 and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative for the School of Ethnic 
 Studies at San Francisco State University; the Center for Islamic Studies 
 at the Graduate Theological Union, the International Centre for Muslim and 
 non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, and Zaytuna 
 College.\n\nIn addition to academic work, Dr, Bazian is a weekly columnist 
 for the Turkish Daily Sabah Newspaper and Turkey Agenda online magazine. 
 Dr. Bazian is founder and national Chair of American Muslims for Palestine, 
 board member of the Islamic Scholarship Fund, Muslim Legal Fund of America, 
 President of Dollar for Deen Charity, and Chair of Northern California 
 Islamic Council.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/21/18864384.php
SUMMARY:The Algebra of Genocide
LOCATION:Chandni 5748 Mowry School Road\nNewark, CA\nTickets: 
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