DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA: Art, Activism & Law in the Age of Insecurity

A panel discussion on Muslim Civil Liberties after 9/11 Preceded by a screening of WHOSE CHILDREN ARE THESE? Followed by a walk-through of the DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA installation

Saturday, April 9, 2:30 PM
Queens Museum of Art, 2d Floor Auditorium

Panelists:
*Marina Budhos, author of forthcoming INVISIBLE, a young adult novel
about detentions

*Rachel Meeropol, attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights; editor of
AMERICA’S DISAPPEARED

*Aziz Huq, VISIBLE Collective; attorney at Brennan Center for Justice
at NYU Law School on democracy and national security issues

*Tariq Abdel-Muhti, son of Farouk Abdel-Muhti, Palestinian activist and
WBAI reporter who died from heart attack from complications during his
two-year detention.

*Aimara Lin, activist, Not In Our Name; granddaughter of Japanese
internees

*Theresa Thanjan, director, WHOSE CHILDREN ARE THESE?

Moderator: Naeem Mohaiemen, Director, VISIBLE, a collective of Muslim
and Other Artist-Activists

Directions

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