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Ask A Muslim Anything

September 20, 2017 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Bring your questions and don’t be shy! Writer, public speaker, and practicing Muslim Robert Azzi will host a lively discussion where he will answer any questions the audience has for him. Azzi welcomes questions on Islam, on being Muslim, on issues related to terrorism and on the geopolitics of the Middle East as he has experienced and understands them.

About Robert Azzi:
Robert Azzi is a photojournalist, columnist and public speaker who lives in Exeter, NH. An Arab American Muslim, he writes on issues of Identity, Conflict, and Islam, particularly as they apply in the Middle East and the Global South. Born in New Hampshire, he’s lived in Beirut, Cairo, Athens, Jeddah and New York. Although he returned to the Granite State in the late 1980s, he continues to travel to work with Middle East clients and friends on a regular basis.

Azzi has been a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard Divinity School, an adviser to Tufts University’s Fletcher School committee on Islam and South-West Asia and recently became a board member of ACLU-NH. As a photojournalist his work appeared frequently in such publications as Life, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, Fortune and other domestic and international publications.