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Other panelists included Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Ali S. A. Asani; Lisa D. Cook, a research fellow at the Center for International Development; Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel; Professor of Education Marcelo Suarez-Orozco; and Wong, the Harvard Foundation's Student Advisory Committee co-chair...
...lecture, co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Lowell House and the South Asian Association, was introduced by Ali S.A. Asani '77, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and culture, who stated that Kamal was, by his own admission, a "somewhat provocative" speaker...
When he gained his citizenship in 1991, Asani's own identity became even more complex...
...think that now it's even more complicated to answer the question, 'where are you from?' because now I'm an American." Asani says. "So now I have this weird identity: African-Asian-American. The categories have so broken down that I wonder if it's at all meaningful to use these labels...
...attempt to help the American Muslim community, Asani helped found a summer program, Al-Ummah--Arabic for "the community"--aimed at giving immigrant Muslim youth a positive identity, both as Americans and as Muslims...