Communications Forum
Being Muslim in America and MIT
Panelists Hisham Bedri, Layla Shaikley, and Abubakar Abid
Communications Forum | Being Muslim in America and MIT
07 APRIL, 2016
Speakers
Layla Shaikley is an MIT alum, co-founder of Wise Systems and co-founder of TEDxBaghdad. With her viral video sensation “Muslim Hipsters: #mipsterz,” she helped launch a national conversation about how Muslim women are represented.
Abubakar Abid is an engineering masters student at MIT and a member of the Muslim Student Association.
Hisham Bedri is an MIT Technology and Policy graduate.
Moderator
Seth Mnookin, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and director of the MIT Communications Forum.