Mohammed Noseeir Q&A session with MFI President Dr Ahmad on May 11,
2009 as part of our brown bag lunch series. Mohammed Nosseir is Chair
of the Secretariat of International Relations and a member of the
Election Committee of the Democratic Front Party, established in 2007
to promote liberal democracy in Egypt. In these two roles he is working
to establish relationships with international liberal organizations and
parties and, additionally, to recruit and promote candidates for the
2010 parliamentary elections with the goal of advancing liberalism,
political participation, and globalization. Mr. Nosseir also has
extensive experience in the private sector, and is general manager of
Global Marketing Consultancy, which he founded in 1997. During his
fellowship, he hopes to gain insights to advance his political reform
work through meetings with U.S. politicians and elected officials to
discuss their campaign strategies, communication protocols, and
fundraising; with national NGOs focused on good governance; and
academics specializing in American electoral politics.
Civil rights
activist Mauri Saalakhan's
discussed his new book The
Palestinian Holocaust, followed
by commentary from Palestinian political science writer Mohamed Nimer
at one of our brown bag luncheons
The Minaret of
Freedom Institute held its first brown bag lunch with a presentation by
Pecki Witonski on her book The Cave of Reconciliation on reconciling
the Jewish and Muslim narratives of religious history.
Azim Noordin Khamisa brown bag lunch at a
Minaret of Freedom Institute on April 4, 2009. Azim Noordin Khamisa, an
author, activist and inspirational speaker was born in Kenya, Africa
and had early training in mathematics, economics andinternational
finance. A successful international investment banker with over 35
years experience, he hasconducted business in Africa, Middle East,
Europe and Asia. Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of
violence among the youth, Azim became a social activist after his
20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas
in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member. Out of
unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspired to transform his
loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there
were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded
the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to break the cycle of youth violence by
saving lives, teaching peace and planting seeds of hope in their
future.
