The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe

The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe

Date and Time

Mar 2, 2025 9:00 am

Location

14th & V

2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009

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Description:

Join us at Busboys and Poets' Sunday School Cafe. This in-person event will take place at our 14th & V location.

Today’s speaker is Dr. Nader Hashemi who will discuss Islam and Human Rights: A 50 Year Retrospective.

Dr. Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies(Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor ofThe People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future(Melville House, 2011), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East(Oxford University Press, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies(Routledge, 2023). His next book project is entitled: “The Global Divide over Israel and Palestine.” He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).

Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe is a weekly informal interactive learning community featuring authors, activists, artists, film makers, journalists and other change makers to help us make sense of the world around us.

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