Guided Search: Event, International Relations

 Imam Mohamed Magid, a member of the national Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC) and Executive Religious Director of All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center, of Sterling, Virginia, works tirelessly to bridge divides in today’s polarized society. He will outline the challenges posed to religious freedom around the world by persecution and discrimination, the prevention of hatred and violence in our world, and an in-depth exploration of the importance of interfaith dialogue in addressing societal challenges.

In My Broken Language--the One Book, One Philadelphia 2022 featured book--Quiara Alegría Hudes explores her own indigenous heritage and some of the history of indigenous peoples in Puerto Rico. This online presentation and discussion will provide an introduction to Caribbean people's histories, focusing on what indigeneity is and what it means for people living in, and diaspora of, the Caribbean today. 

The 2022 United Nations Summer Camp: Sustainable Development Goals in Action, is a weeklong summer camp for middle school students interested in learning about global affairs through the work of the United Nations.

The 2022 Summer Global Leadership Seminar, entitled Global Development and International Aid, is a weeklong program bringing together a group of diverse and highly-motivated regional high school students for an intensive summer learning experience with the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The US and China, the world’s two superpowers, have a volatile relationship.

This presentation examines what it was like to be queer in 1950s and 1960s America, an America where anyone who did not conform to social norms and expectations was ostracized. The guest speaker, Bob Skiba, is the Curator of Collections for the John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia.

Join us in welcoming international peers from Maldives, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Rwanda, Spain, and Tajikistan.

ASHM is proud to partner with the World Affairs Council to present this hybrid event of a conversation on U.S- Sweden relations.