Breaking Out of Islamist Extremism

Friday, October 18, 2013
Speaker
Maajid Nawaz
Chairman, Quilliam Foundation; Co-Founder, Khudi; and Author, Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism
Presider
Ed Husain
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Ed Husain hosts Maajid Nawaz, author and co-founder of Quilliam Foundation and Khudi, in a discussion of what makes Islamist extremism attractive to youth internationally and how this phenomenon can be countered.

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