When: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT Where: Via Zoom Webinar
Washington Targets Dissent: Repression from the Academy to the Streets
by Arab Center Washington DC
This webinar will also be livestreamed on our website
Speakers
Asli Bali, President, Middle East Studies Association of North America; Professor of Law, Yale University
Tariq Habash, Co-Founder and Director, A New Policy; former Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
Lara Friedman, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Moderator
Yousef Munayyer, Head of the Israel/Palestine Program and Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC
About the Webinar
The Trump Administration’s policies toward universities and protestors have been characterized as the biggest assault on civil liberties in the United States since the Second Red Scare or the era of McCarthyism. Some of the nation’s most esteemed universities have been targeted by the administration with punitive measures aimed at forcing changes that would gut their academic freedom. Students who protested Israeli policies and American support for the war on Gaza have been summarily detained by masked agents and disappeared.
Arab Center Washington DC is convening a webinar panel of experts to discuss this and will seek to address several questions. What have been the impacts of these policies so far? Where do we expect things to go? What have the legal responses been? How are institutions responding? What is the origin of these policies, and how did we get here? How is immigration law and federal education policy being used?
This webinar will also be livestreamed on our website