The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold it’s 11th annual conference this Wednesday, April 28, on “U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo.” Panel discussions will cover such themes as dialogue with political Islamists; Muslim perceptions and public opinion; Islam, human rights, and development; and democracy promotion in the Islamic world. The conference will also feature a keynote discussion between Congressman Keith Ellison, Tariq Ramadan, and Reza Aslan, and a concluding address by Rashad Hussain.
Register for the conference here.
Jessica Polebaum is a contributing editor for The Immanent Frame and a J.D. candidate at Georgetown University. A former program and editorial associate at the Social Science Research Council, she holds a B.A. in religion from Middlebury College, where her undergraduate work culminated in a senior honors thesis on ijtihad---a concept from classical Islamic law---and its use in modern reform movements. Upon graduating in 2008, she received the Ann and Edward Meyers Religion Prize for exceptional ability in the understanding, expression, and integration of ideas in the area of religious studies.
