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Journalist Nomani to speak at UT, Oct. 29
The Catherine S. Eberly Center for Women at the
University of Toledo hosts guest
speaker Asra Q. Nomani, author
of Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul
of Islam.
This event takes place on Thursday, October 29, 2009, at 7 p.m.
in the University of Toledo's
Law Center Auditorium. Tickets for this program are free and
open to the public, however seating is limited.
Nomani is an accomplished journalist, having covered the
transportation, financial, travel and trade industries for 15
years for the Wall Street Journal.
She subsequently covered the country of
Pakistan for Salon Magazine and was honored with an
Online Journalists Award for her work.
After the kidnapping and murder of her friend and
Wall Street Journal reporter,
Daniel Pearl, Nomani wrote
Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of
Islam and covered Islamic issues for the Washington Post,
New York Times,
Time magazine, and many more.
Nomani has become a noted writer-activist for women's rights and
tolerance in the Muslim world,
co-founding the nonprofit organization Muslims for Peace. A
graduate of West Virginia University
and American University, Nomani
currently serves as a visiting journalism scholar at
Georgetown University, leading
the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigation into the
murder of Daniel Pearl.
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