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Executive Director
Ahmed Rehab
Deputy Director
Sufyan Sohel
Civil Rights Director
Christina Abraham
Litigation Director
Kevin Vodak, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Rabya Khan
Communications Coordinators
Aymen Abdel Halim
Ambreen Zuberi
Outreach Coordinator
Gerald Hankerson
Operations Coordinator
Mohamed Abdelati
Board of Directors Chairman
Mazen Kudaimi, MD
Advisory Board Honorary President
Prof. M Cherif Bassiouni
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| Save the date / volunteer for CAIR-ChicagoÕs 9th Annual Banquet Ð March 23rd! |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 23, 2013 |
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The annual banquet will be held on Saturday, March 23rd 2013 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. To volunteer or for more information, e-mail CAIR-ChicagoÕs Outreach Coordinator Gerald Hankerson, at volunteer@cairchicago.org or call 312-212-1520. |
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| Become a sponsor of CAIR-ChicagoÕs 9th Annual Banquet! |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 10, 2013 |
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Sponsorship packages include ads in our program booklet, tickets to our event, and/or a vendor display table for your business or organization. To become a sponsor or for more information, e-mail Sufyan Sohel, Deputy Director of CAIR-Chicago, at ssohel@cairchicago.org or call 312-212-1520. |
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| Press Release: #MyJihad ad campaign launches in Washington D.C. |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 28, 2013 |
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Ads for the #MyJihad Public Educational Campaign, sponsored by the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), launched today in Washington D.C. and are currently appearing at the Shaw, Waterfront, Rockville, and Dunn Loring train stations. |
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| Ahmed Rehab to speak on Islamophobia at AIC |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 25, 2012 |
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CAIR-Chicago's Executive Director, Ahmed Rehab, will be included as part of a panel to discuss religious bigotry at the American Islamic College on February 23rd. |
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| Rabya Khan participates in ÔOf Civil Wrongs and RightsÕ screening |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 24, 2013 |
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In honor of Fred Korematsu Day, CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney, Rabya Khan, will join Bill Yoshino, Midwest Director of Japanese American Citizens League, as part of a special screening of the film, ÔOf Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story.Õ |
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| Liberty and justice for all: a legacy to remember |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 14, 2013 | Dartunorro Clark, Communications Intern |
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Dr. King transcended decades of struggle, and through his life and in the aftermath of his death embodied the ideal of American and international civil and human rights through a very simple philosophy: freedom, justice, and equality for all. |
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| Rabya Khan speaks at interfaith event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 23, 2013 |
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CAIR-ChicagoÕs Staff Attorney, Rabya Khan, was a featured speaker at the ÒRemember our Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesÓ interfaith event this past Monday, January 21st to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| WBEZ, Worldview: Ahmed Rehab discusses political unrest and violence in Egypt |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 30, 2013 |
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On Sunday, President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency and deployed the army to several cities to control the violence, which has left at least 50 people dead. Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago joins Jerome McDonnell on Worldview to discuss the latest political unrest. |
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| Washington Post: ÔJihadÕ ads come to D.C. Metro stations |
| The Washington Post | January 30, 2013 |
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Aiming to Òreclaim jihad from Muslim and anti-Muslim extremists alike,Ó Muslim activists this week announced that their Ò#My jihadÓ ad campaign began running Monday in D.C. metro stations. The ads have previously appeared on buses in San Francisco and Chicago. |
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| Huffington Post: My Jihad Ad Campaign Launches In Washington, D.C. |
| Huffington Post | January 30, 2013 |
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Just months after controversial anti-Muslim ads went on display, the nationÕs capital will feature a campaign meant to redefine, in positive ways, the popular understanding of jihad. |
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| State of Belief Radio: Taking back Islam from extremists with ÒMy JihadÓ |
| State of Belief Radio | January 17, 2013 |
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CAIR-Chicago Executive Director and founder of the #MyJihad campaign, Ahmed Rehab, and Rev. Welton Gaddy discuss the purpose of the campaign and what it hopes to achieve. |
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| Vancouver Observer: #MyJihad: How a hashtag aims to reintroduce Muslims to Canada and US |
| Vancouver Observer | January 22, 2013 |
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A #MyJihad activist tells Vancouver Observer about a US-based movement against Islamophobia, crossing the border into Canada. |
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| ISLAMiCommentary: Taking back Islam from extremists with ÒMy JihadÓ campaign Ñ Now in D.C. |
| ISLAMiCommentary | January 29, 2013 |
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In the past month, the #MyJihad campaign launched in two other major U.S. cities, Chicago and San Francisco. The campaign has also made its way to Cairo, Egypt, where it displayed messages of Muslim and Christian unity during the Christmas season. |
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| On Islam: ÔMy JihadÕ to Canada to defeat Islamophobes |
| On Islam | January 22, 2013 |
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An American Muslim campaign that was first launched by the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) in December, has crossed into Canada to introduce the true meaning of Jihad. |
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| AAAN: A survey of racial profiling within the Chicago Muslim community |
| CAIR-Chicago | January 29, 2013 |
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The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) has designed a survey, with the help of their partner organization, in order to gather information about MuslimsÕ experiences with racial profiling. |
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