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The panel-discussion focused on Ideas Beyond Borders, a US-based non-profit, which
promotes human rights and the free exchange of ideas through education, partnerships,
research, and technology to counter extremist narratives and authoritarian institutions. Faisal
and Nadia spent time talking about their history growing up in the Middle East, and how
important it is to realize that the ideas and culture which characterized the beauty of the Arab
World both during its golden and contemporary ages must be restored while moving toward
a further enlightened Middle-East through the sharing of enlightenment values.
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, an Iraqi-born award-winning human rights activist, writer and counter
extremism advocate is the Founder and CEO of Ideas Beyond Borders. He is an advocate for
universal human rights, secularism and the free market of ideas and is enthusiastic about the
intersectionality of technology and advocacy. In 2015 he received the ‘President’s Volunteer
Service Award’ from President Barack Obama for his special commitment to education.
Dr. Nadia Oweidat is a Jordanian-born historian of Islamic thought and the Middle East. She
is an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, teaching classes on Islamic thought
and history and security of the modern Middle East. She is a Senior Fellow at New America,
where she conducts research on countering violent extremism and agents of positive change
in the Arab world. Dr. Owediat sits on the Advisory Board of Ideas Beyond Borders.
23 ноя 2018
