Noon to 1:00, Wednesday, July 13
6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Av., NW
Washington
Free and open to the public.
Also available at Wilson on Demand
Robin Wright, Author and USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar
In Rock the Casbah, Wright, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and television commentator, tells the personal stories behind the rejection of both autocrats and extremists in the Muslim world. Wright profiles young techies mobilizing political uprisings, clerics publicly repudiating Osama bin Laden, Muslim comedians ridiculing militancy, hip hop artists rapping against guns and bombs, playwrights and poets redefining jihad, feminists reinterpreting the Koran, and militants denouncing violence. Wright describes this new phase of Islamic activism as a “counter-jihad.”
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