EVENTS ARCHIVE

HBO Documentary HOMEGROWN Premieres on Monday, February 8th A timely exploration of one of today’s most divisive and pressing issues – the threat posed by homegrown Islamic extremism and the challenges of detecting and countering it. Directed by Emmy® award-winner Greg Barker (HBO’s Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden), Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma is a […]

Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma West Coast Premiere with Filmmaker Q & A Greg Barker February 4, 2016   7:00 PM, Screening Landmark Theater (at Westside Pavilion) 10850 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90064 Ticket Price Member $0.00 Purchase Tickets or call (424) 258 6160 Add to Calendar Summary Screening with Q&A and Reception Homegrown: The […]

Wednesday, February, 03, 2016 United States of Jihad, New America, Manhattan

UNITED STATES OF JIHAD Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists event | February 03, 2016 UNITED STATES OF JIHAD : Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists Wednesday, February 03, 2016 06:30 PM – 08:15 PM 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor New York, NY 10010 RSVP Map it Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans – born and raised in […]

Tuesday, February, 02, 2016 The Daily Show

ComedyCentral Menu ComedyCentral LATEST EPISODE NEXT WEEK’S GUESTS Monday Reshma Saujani Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code Tuesday Peter Bergen Journalist & Author Wednesday Hannibal Buress Comedian Thursday Lilly Singh YouTube Star Full Episodes 55 videos

Tuesday, February, 02, 2016 HBO’s “Homegrown” Screening NYC

New America Please note our new address! 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 February 1st, 2016 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Following the Balkan wars of the 1990s, it initially appeared that the warlords responsible for genocide and other mass atrocities would get away with their crimes. They had been indicted by the […]

Pomfret School welcomes many distinguished guests to the school each year. The Schwartz Visiting Fellow Program began in 1988, when brothers Michael L. Schwartz ’66 and Eric A. Schwartz ’69, both former trustees, awarded Pomfret a generous annual grant to begin a visiting fellowship program. The Schwartz brothers’ aim was to design a program to […]

Wednesday, January, 27, 2016 HBO’s Homegrown Screening, DC

event | January 25, 2016 Peter Bergen Islam, Gender, and Extremism : Muslim Women in the Fight Against ISIS and Beyond Monday, January 25, 2016 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM New America 740 15th Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 RSVP Map it ISIS has attracted an unprecedented number of women to jihadist extremism […]

New America holds a book discussion on “Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women who are Transforming the Arab World.”TIME: 12:15 p.m.LOCATION: New America, 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C.CONTACT: Maria Elkin, 202-596-3368, elkin@newamerica.org [Note: RSVP at https:// ]PARTICIPANTS: author Katherine Zoepf, fellow at New America; and Peter Bergen, vice president of New AmericaSUBJECT: ||MIDEAST/DAUGHTERS/BOOK|| Foreign Affairs; LOAD-DATE: January 14, 2016LANGUAGE: ENGLISH