Writing a book. When i started the movement, i gave a speech. I was invited to give a speech. People cried to that speech. People gave me two standing ovations. This never happened in the history of that conference. When i came down the stage, this lady came to me and she said, when are we going to read your story . And i thought, who would ever be interested in reading about my insignificant life . But that really sparked the idea of writing this book. Lamb when was that . Alsharif i gave the speech in 2012 and that is when i started writing it. Lamb where did you give the speech and why . Alsharif it was also a Freedom Forum and it was hosted by human rights foundation. It is based in new york and they invite activists from all around the world to tell their stories of standing against tyrants and standing and fighting for human rights. That was in oslo. Lamb lets start from the beginning. Where were you born . Alsharif i am born in mecca in the year of trouble, i call it, which is 1
Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Apologize for the lack of space and lack of sandwiches. More people showed up than we were expecting. If you were expecting that jay z would be on this panel, i apologize. I dont think he was available. But this is Congressional Internet Caucus Academy briefing. Weve been doing these things since 1996. A pretty remarkable span of time. Informative issues, discussions on critical internet issues as we see them. Were policy agnostic but try to provide a good baseline on understanding of key issues. Todays panel in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul jay z or congress. This is with congressional in conjunction with congressional internet caucus. The cochairs of caucus on the senate side are chairman john thune and patrick leahy. On the host side congresswoman anna escru. Congressman collins would be cochair on the caucus and were thrilled to have him. The reality is that for members participating in briefings and hosting briefings in conjunction w
This . Manal alsharif why . Tough question. I never thought of writing a book. When i started the movement, i gave a speech. I was invited to give a speech. People cried. People gave me two standing ovations. This never happened in the history of that conference. When i came down the stage, this lady came to me and she said, when are we going to read your story . And i thought, who would ever be interested in reading about my insignificant life . But that really sparked the idea of writing this book. Lamb when was that . Alsharif i gave the speech in 2012 and that is when i started writing it. Lamb where did you give the speech and why . Alsharif it was also a Freedom Forum and it was hosted by human rights foundation. It is based in new york and they invite activists from all around the world to tell their stories of standing against tyrants and standing and fighting for human rights. Lamb lets start from the beginning. Where were you born . Alsharif i am born in mecca in the year of
President trump thank you very much. I want to extend our condolences to the people of el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio. Theyre incredible people. And theyve been through a lot. I just want to also thank the Law Enforcement in both places, the job theyve done is incredible. I also want to congratulate them. Nobody could have done what theyve done. This could have been as bad as it was. It could have been so much worse. I just have to thank them. The job theyve done is incredible. They were right on the ball in el paso. They were there so quickly. And in dayton, in less than a minute. Think of the damage they did in such a short period of time in less than a minute, the Law Enforcement acted and killed him, and it would have been unbelievable. It would have been it was horrible but it would have been so much worse, it could have been so much worse. I just want to say that these are two incredible places. We love the people. Hate has no place in our country and were going to take care of
Writing a book. When i started the movement, i gave a speech. I was invited to give a speech. People cried to that speech. People gave me two standing ovations. This never happened in the history of that conference. When i came down the stage, this lady came to me and she said, when are we going to read your story . And i thought, who would ever be interested in reading about my insignificant life . But that really sparked the idea of writing this book. Lamb when was that . Alsharif i gave the speech in 2012 and that is when i started writing it. Lamb where did you give the speech and why . Alsharif it was also a Freedom Forum and it was hosted by human rights foundation. It is based in new york and they invite activists from all around the world to tell their stories of standing against tyrants and standing and fighting for human rights. That was in oslo. Lamb lets start from the beginning. Where were you born . Alsharif i am born in mecca in the year of trouble, i call it, which is 1