Join Haymarket and Truthout for the first in their joint 25th anniversary event series re-visiting key political junctures and experiences from the last quarter-century, hosted by Maya Schenwar. Join Maya, Khury Petersen-Smith, Maha Hilal, and Negin Owliaei for an urgent conversation drawing lessons from the War on Terror and the anti-war movement of the 2000s to inform today's struggles against war and imperialism.

More About the Speakers:

Dr. Maha Hilal is the founding Executive Director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab and a founding steering committee member of the Guantanamo Survivors Fund. She is also a researcher and writer and the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11.

Negin Owliaei is an award-winning journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truthout.

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. He does research on war and militarization and strategizes with activists to end them.

Maya Schenwiar s the director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She joined Truthout in 2007 as a reporter covering the Iraq War, militarism, and surveillance, and has been with the organization ever since. Maya is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and the co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, among other books. In addition to Truthout, Maya has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NBC News, The Nation, and many other publications, and is cofounder of the Movement Media Alliance. She lives in Chicago with her partner, child, and anti-imperialist cat.

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