Join us for a discussion featuring community leaders and distinguished professors to analyse the aftermath of the 2024 US elections and its implications for American Muslims and beyond. As the political landscape shifts following one of the most polarising elections in recent history, this forum will deliberate how the election outcomes might shape policies, civil liberties, and social dynamics affecting Muslim communities across the country.

This event will be chaired by Muhammad Jalal.

WHEN: Friday, 13 December, 2024, 6-8pm GMT
WHERE: Al Manaar The Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre (244 Acklam Rd, London W10 5YG) or watch live online on YouTube, Facebook and IHRC.TV

BOOK: secure your tickets here (tickets are for in-person attendance only)

FREE EVENT

About the speakers:

Saeed A. Khan is is Senior Lecturer Near East & Asian and Global Studies at Wayne State University, as well as Research Fellow at its Center for the Study of Citizenship and Honorary Fellow at Australian Catholic University. He is also Cofounder and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding. He is a regular panelist on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Turning Point, as well as a regular contributor to news outlets like the BBC, Veja, Quartz and Time Magazine.

Imam Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), member of the Imams Council of Michigan, and a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary based in New York.

Walid has studied under qualified scholars the disciplines of Arabic grammar and morphology, foundations of Islamic jurisprudence, comparative Islamic jurisprudence, and sciences of the exegesis of the Qur’an.

He previously served as an imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and the Bosnian American Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, and board president of Al-Ikhlas Training Academy.

He is the author of the books Towards Sacred Activism, Blackness and Islam, and Futuwwah and Raising Males into Sacred Manhood, and co-author of the books Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims and Centering Black Narrative: Ahl al-Bayt, Blackness & Africa as well as author of essays in the 2012 book All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim and the 2014 book Qur’an in Conversation and author of the foreword to the book The Spirits of Black Folk: Sages Through the Ages.

Anne Norton is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of seven books, including Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method, On the Muslim Question, and Wild Democracy.

Muhammad Jalal is the host of The Thinking Muslim podcast. He regularly delivers lectures and courses on politics and how to navigate political ideologies within an Islamic framework. He also writes for a number of journals.