Thank you so much. If you could join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage. [applause] my name is khalid latif. I will be moderating the discussion for tonight, which i think is a nice way for the Brooklyn Historical society to tell me that i need to not talk so much tonight and let other people talk. We have an amazing lineup here. Im going to run through their bios really quickly. To give you insight as to the structure of the night, we are going to have some questions for the panelists for about 45 minutes or so. Thereafter, we will open it up to you all to engage in discussion and q a with the panelists for another 15 or 20 minutes before we wrap up the event. If you feel like you are hearing something you want to hear more on, if you have questions on, feel free to jot notes to yourself, because we will have ample opportunity at the end of the evening to be able to engage in question and answers. So we have four amazing people with us here tonight. Immediately to my left is b
Thank you so much. If you could join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage. [applause] my name is khalid latif. I will be moderating the discussion for tonight, which i think is a nice way for the Brooklyn Historical society to tell me that i need to not talk so much tonight and let other people talk. We have an amazing lineup here. Im going to run through their bios really quickly. To give you insight as to the structure of the night, we are going to have some questions for the panelists for about 45 minutes or so. Thereafter, we will open it up to you all to engage in discussion and q a with the panelists for another 15 or 20 minutes before we wrap up the event. If you feel like you are hearing something you want to hear more on, if you have questions on, feel free to jot notes to yourself, because we will have ample opportunity at the end of the evening to be able to engage in question and answers. So we have four amazing people with us here tonight. Immediately to my left is b
Thank you so much. If you could join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage. [applause] my name is khalid latif. I will be moderating the discussion for tonight, which i think is a nice way for the Brooklyn Historical society to tell me that i need to not talk so much tonight and let other people talk. We have an amazing lineup here. Im going to run through their bios really quickly. To give you insight as to the structure of the night, we are going to have some questions for the panelists for about 45 minutes or so. Thereafter, we will open it up to you all to engage in discussion and q a with the panelists for another 15 or 20 minutes before we wrap up the event. If you feel like you are hearing something you want to hear more on, if you have questions on, feel free to jot notes to yourself, because we will have ample opportunity at the end of the evening to be able to engage in question and answers. So we have four amazing people with us here tonight. Immediately to my left is b
We have an amazing line of people. To give you an insight as to what the structure of the night somebe, we will have questions for the for about 45 minutes or so. After we will open up to you are. If you hear something that you want to hear more on, you russians on, feel free to jot notes down. We will have ample opportunity at the end of the evening to engage in questions and answers as well. Four amazing people with us tonight. Immediately to my left is a british journalist based in new writer forulture buzz feed news, a columnist for the guardian, and an essayist recently published the good immigrant. Law at thesor of City University of new york or he directs the immigrant and noncitizen rent clinic. Representsudents he nationalities held at guantanamo bay. He found himself in the crosshairs of this as well as immigrants and asylum seekers. Whose interests include legal and policy responses to the september 11 attacks and received National Security crisis is coming the rights of min
Chucky taylor so it is difficult wanted to part because of the atrocities he committed in the library when it was essentially a lawless war zone but because it seems to bizarre that a teenager from suburban florida could wind up there. Johnny dwyer spent five years researching it is in close contact with chucky, ism and the american officials who were ultimate brought about his conviction. He demonstrates his skill as a reporter when he put chuckys store in the context many readers would find invaluable. The nations of library and the u. S. A. Have a long and complicated relationship with one another that stretches back to the 1820s. In discussing the brood arise and fall of charles and Chucky Taylor who are now leveraging and british and american presence respectively, we should remember the west was never a passive observer to this history. It was instead involved throughout and to i think thats one of the many reasons why this history needs to be told and told today. Ladies and gent