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The Multicultural Lecture Series
presents
Irshad Manji
"The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith"
Irshad Manji, best-selling author and award winning TV personality, will speak on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 in Brower Student Center 202. This
lecture is free and open to the public. A booksigning will follow.
Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith. Her book has been published internationally, including in Pakistan. Later this year, it will also be published in Turkey, Iraq and India.
In those countries that have banned The Trouble with Islam Today, Irshad is reaching readers by posting free translations on her website.
Meanwhile, Irshad writes columns that are distributed worldwide by The New York Times Syndicate. She is also producing a PBS documentary about what there is to love about Islam.
As a broadcaster, Irshad hosts Big Ideas, a Canadian program that features maverick thinkers in fields ranging from science to spirituality. As a volunteer, she sits on the inter-faith editorial board of Seventeen magazine, based in New York. She also serves as a mentor to young scholars, specializing in human rights and public policy at the Pierre Trudeau Foundation in Montreal.
Irshad is working with young Muslims around the globe to launch a leadership center that will promote the liberal Islamic reformation. Recognizing Irshad’s own leadership, Oprah Winfrey has honored her with the first annual Chutzpah Award for “audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.” Ms. magazine has named her a Feminist for the 21st Century. And on International Women’s Day, the Jakarta Post in Indonesia identified Irshad as one of three Muslim women making a positive change in Islam.
In 2006, Irshad will be writing her next book as a Fellow at Yale University.
