The Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

invites you to a book event:

“Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era”

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 featuring author:

 Arsalan Iftikhar

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Book Description:

With the tragic rise of extremism and global racism around the world today, the sociopolitical philosophy of "Islamic Pacifism" is a humanitarian ethical platform rooted within the general concepts of nonviolence and basic Muslim ethical teachings of mercy and compassion towards all of humanity. From the global Muslim response to September 11 to analyzing the concept of 'The Golden Rule' within Islamic tradition to highlighting the contributions of historical Muslim pacifist giants from our recent past, this book 'Islamic Pacifism' shall offer young girls and boys of all colors and religions around the world a nonviolent antidote to many of our shared social and political issues affecting our globe today.

For more details, please visit: http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Pacifism-Global-Muslims-Post-Osama/dp/1463553129/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315966590&sr=8-2

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

12:30pm - ICC 270

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Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, global media commentator and author of the book Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era. Arsalan is a regular contributor for National Public Radio (NPR) and his ‘on-the-record’ media interviews, commentaries and analyses have regularly appeared in virtually every major media outlet in the world including: CNN, BBC World News, The TODAY Show, MSNBC, Associated Press, C-SPAN, Al-Jazeera English, Voice of America (VOA), Agence France-Presse (AFP), USA TODAY, NBC Nightly News, The Washington Post, ABC World News Tonight, Los Angeles Times, CBS News Up to the Minute, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Economist and Newsweek magazines (among dozens others worldwide).  In May 2011, Arsalan was named one of the top 12 Muslim Twitter accounts by The Huffington Post and in August 2011, he was also invited to join The British Council’s ‘Our Shared Future’ Opinion Leaders Network – a transatlantic network of opinion leaders and scholars whose work and ideas contribute constructively to our global conversation. In 2006, the French Ambassador to the United States also appointed Arsalan to the Personnalites d’Avenir (Personalities of the Future) World Leader Program in Paris sponsored by the French Foreign Ministry. Arsalan graduated from Washington University School of Law in 2003 and he is licensed to practice law in Washington DC.