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Brought to you by DC Public Library and American Purpose, you are warmly invited to a discussion about the state of immigration today. Registration requested.
The United States has been called “the permanently unfinished country.”
Join human rights activists Enes Kanter Freedom, Turkish-American former NBA star and Roya Hakakian, Iranian-American writer and journalist, for a discussion of immigration today with Professor Peter Skerry, Boston College. Attend in-person at the West End Neighborhood Library's Large Meeting Room in Washington, D.C. or via livestream. Brought to you by DC Public Library and American Purpose.
Featured guests:
ROYA HAKAKIAN
Roya Hakakian is a writer and journalist who writes both in Persian and English. She is the author of two books of poetry in Persian and three books of prose in English. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction for Assassins of the Turquoise Palace. Her memoir, Journey from the Land of No, about coming of age as a Jewish girl in post-revolutionary Iran, received Elle Magazine's Readers Choice Award. Her latest book is A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. She is an SNF Agora Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and a proud naturalized US citizen.
ENES KANTER FREEDOM
Enes Kanter Freedom is a human rights activist, former NBA star, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He has spoken out repeatedly against human rights violations in China and his native Turkey. He has been the subject of twelve arrest warrants and countless death threats in nine years. He has championed the plight of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers, Taiwanese, and others facing Chinese oppression, after which his NBA career came to an end. Seven years after his Turkish citizenship was revoked, he became an American citizen and changed his last name to Freedom.
PETER SKERRY
Peter Skerry is professor of political science at Boston College, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and a contributing editor at American Purpose. He is author of the acclaimed Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Counting on the Census: Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics. He is currently completing a study of Muslims in the United States with his work From the Brotherhood to the Neighborhood: Muslims in American Society and Politics.
DR. JEFFREY GEDMIN
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin is co-founder and editor-in-chief of American Purpose, the magazine and media venture. He is on temporary assignment as acting president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio in Prague, where he previously served as President and CEO of RFE/RL from 2007-2011. He is former President/CEO of the London-based Legatum Institute and Aspen Berlin.
Special thanks to Carl Gershman, Founding President, National Endowment for Democracy
Image credit: "Duality" by Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow, painters. Used with permission.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Educational Program |
