BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Whose justice? Preemptive prosecution in the "War on Terror" Pa nel discussion with Laila Al-Arian\, writer and producer for Al Jazeera En glish. Since 9/11 the government has manipulated the public’s fear of terr orism to formally expand upon existing social injustices against Arabs and Muslims living in America and abroad. As a result\, thousands of Arab-Ame ricans and Muslim-Americans have been labeled terrorists and unfairly deta ined\, deported or profiled\, even though very few are ever successfully p rosecuted in the courts for terrorism. This panel event will address the f ollowing cases: Dr. Sami Al-Arian\, Associate Professor of the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and a Palest inian activist\, was arrested in 2003 on charges that he was a leader of t he Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However in December 2005\, following a six m onth trial\, a Florida jury failed to return a single guilty verdict on an y of the seventeen charges brought against him. Today he is still under ho use arrest. Dr. Al-Arian’s eldest daughter\, Laila Al-Arian\, will speak a bout his case. Laila is a writer and producer for Al Jazeera English in Wa shington DC. She received an M.S. degree from Columbia's Graduate School o f Journalism in 2006. Her work has appeared in The Nation\, Alternet\, The Independent\, The Guardian\, The Australian\, United Press International\ , and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Laila is the author\, with Chris Hedges\, of Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civi lians published by Nation Books. Dr. Rafil Dhafir\, a local Iraqi-American oncologist\, is currently serving a prison sentence for his charitable wo rk in Iraq. Katherine Hughes\, a court watcher for the American Civil Libe rties Union\, and Magda Bayoumi\, a respected Muslim-American activist\, w ill join the panel to speak about his case. Yassin Aref\, a Muslim Imam fr om Albany\, and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain\, a local businessman\, are bot h serving prison sentences after being targeted by an FBI sting operation. Stephen Downs\, a retired New York State attorney\, will speak about thei r case. \; DTEND:20100421T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T123112Z DTSTART:20100421T210000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:MES presents: Laila Al-Arian UID:RFCALITEM639124434724045185 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Whose justice? Preemptive prosecution in the " War on Terror" Panel discussion with Laila Al-Arian\, writer and producer for Al Jazeera English. Since 9/11 the government has manipulated the publ ic’s fear of terrorism to formally expand upon existing social injustices against Arabs and Muslims living in America and abroad. As a result\, thou sands of Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans have been labeled terrorists and unfairly detained\, deported or profiled\, even though very few are ev er successfully prosecuted in the courts for terrorism. This panel event w ill address the following cases: Dr. Sami Al-Arian\, Associate Professor o f the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) in T ampa and a Palestinian activist\, was arrested in 2003 on charges that he was a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However in December 2005\, following a six month trial\, a Florida jury failed to return a single gui lty verdict on any of the seventeen charges brought against him. Today he is still under house arrest. Dr. Al-Arian’s eldest daughter\, Laila Al-Ari an\, will speak about his case. Laila is a writer and producer for Al Jaze era English in Washington DC. She received an M.S. degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism in 2006. Her work has appeared in The Nation \, Alternet\, The Independent\, The Guardian\, The Australian\, United Pre ss International\, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Laila is the author\, with Chris Hedges\, of Collateral Damage: America's War A gainst Iraqi Civilians published by Nation Books. Dr. Rafil Dhafir\, a loc al Iraqi-American oncologist\, is currently serving a prison sentence for his charitable work in Iraq. Katherine Hughes\, a court watcher for the Am erican Civil Liberties Union\, and Magda Bayoumi\, a respected Muslim-Amer ican activist\, will join the panel to speak about his case. Yassin Aref\, a Muslim Imam from Albany\, and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain\, a local busi nessman\, are both serving prison sentences after being targeted by an FBI sting operation. Stephen Downs\, a retired New York State attorney\, will speak about their case. \; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR