Standing Alone in Mecca

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that Asra Nomani, journalist and author of
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul
of Islam, will be speaking Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at
the University of Central Florida in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the
Student Union. Her presentation will be on "The Paradox of Women in
Islam."

Nomani, a Muslim born in India who later immigrated to America with her
family, is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent. She has also
worked extensively in the Middle East and South Asia and written
multiple articles for leading newspapers and magazines. She covered and
analyzed the major events taking place, as well as reported from the
front lines on the post 9-11 conflict in Afghanistan and throughout the
region.

One of the last people to see her best friend, Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl, alive, Asra Nomani figures prominently in the
acclaimed film, A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie. The film
captures Daniel's wife Mariane and as they struggle to get answers and
provide each other consolation and support during the dark days
surrounding his abduction and murder. Nomani continues to search for the
truth about who killed Daniel through The Pearl Project, an
investigative program she now heads at Georgetown University.

The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the UCF
Global Perspectives Office, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Middle
Eastern Studies Program, The India Program at UCF, UCF Diplomacy
Program, UCF Women's Studies Program, UCF Women's Research Center, UCF
International Services Center, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang
Foundation, UCF LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.

Please see the attached flyer or visit www.ucfglobalperspectives.org
for further information.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Kind regards,



Global Perspectives Office
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Howard Phillips Hall room 202
Orlando, FL 32816-0003
www.ucfglobalperspectives.org