You are cordially invited to this special guest lecture:
Standing Alone:
An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Asra Q. Nomani
Thursday, October 29
7-9 p.m.
The University of Toledo, Law Center Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public
Reception preceding the lecture: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
For More Information and to RSVP for Reception
Call: 419.530.8570.
Sponsored by: The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, The Department of Philosophy, The Women’s and Gender Studies Department, the President’s Lecture Series on Diversity, Office of the Provost, Main Campus, College of Engineering and the UT Program in Religious Studies.
Nomani is an accomplished journalist, having covered the transportation,
financial, travel, and trade industries for 15 years for the Wall Street Journal.
Nomani subsequently covered the country of Pakistan for Salon Magazine
and was honored with an Online Journalists Award for her work. After the
kidnapping and murder of her friend and Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel
Pearl, Nomani wrote Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the
Soul of Islam and covered Islamic issues for the Washington Post, New York
Times, Time magazine, and more.
Nomani has become a noted writer-activist for women’s rights and tolerance
in the Muslim world, co-founding Muslims for Peace. A graduate of West
Virginia University and American University, Nomani currently serves as
a visiting journalism scholar at Georgetown University, leading the Pearl
Project, a faculty-student investigation into the murder of Daniel Pearl.