WASHINGTON, March 13, 2012 – AIC has compiled the most exceptional entries to its annual “Dream Deferred” contest into an anthology of essays penned by young Middle Eastern dissidents entitled “Arab Spring Dreams.” The book, which includes a forward by activist and author Gloria Steinem, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan on May 8.…
Read MoreBOSTON, March 2, 2012 — Last night, AIC and AJC presented the latest in our joint “Witness Initiative,” a discussion with special guests Iranian student leader “T,” who spoke on condition of anonymity, and U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz. Kicking off “International Women’s Month,” we brought this unexpected pair of remarkable women together to…
Read MoreCNN News Anchor interviewed AIC’s Egypt Office Director Dalia Ziada in the CNN newsroom to learn more about the current political situation in Egypt as well as the issues women are facing and the the status of civil rights in the country. Dalia also spoke about AIC’s Egypt programs, which focus on civil rights, women’s…
Read MoreNonviolence and civil resistance were mainstays during the Civil Rights movement in the United States. That same technique is being used at the grassroots level in the Arab Spring movement that started just over a year ago. Our first guest is Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who was there, walking alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., activating…
Read MoreIn honor of Martin Luther King Day, NPR’s Robin Young interviewed AIC’s Dalia Ziada for Young’s “Here & Now” program to discuss the Arabic translation of the 1950’s “Montgomery Story” comic book. You can listen to and read the NPR coverage here and learn more about the comic book here.
Read MoreIn 1958, the Fellowship on Reconciliation published a short comic book called “The Montgomery Story” in English and Spanish, on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a campaign led by Martin Luther King, Jr., to end segregation on buses in the Alabama capitol. The comic book ends with a section on “how the Montgomery Method works,”…
Read MoreNasser Weddady, Civil Rights Outreach Director for AIC, spoke to the Post’s Jerry Markon in this article.
Read MoreElliot Francis covers the resurgence of Martin Luther King’s message through a civil rights era comic book translated into Arabic and distributed in Egypt by AIC. Read More or Listen Here
Read MoreIn this article written during the celebration of the Martin Luther King Memorial on the Mall celebration, Emily Wax writes, “During the protests this spring in Egypt, a civil-rights-era comic book weaving the tale of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent resistance movement found a fresh audience with the young protesters who packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square.”…
Read MoreRepresentative John Lewis shares his memories of Martin Luther King and his surprise in finding that the American Islamic Congress was spreading Dr. King’s message across the Middle East. Read more in this profile published in the National Journal.
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