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Let us seek mutual help and friendship and stand firm in
constancy and patient perseverance
Interfaith Coalition for Peace, New Delhi
Cordially
invites you for an
Interactive Session
with
Eboo Patel
(Member,
White House Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood
Initiatives)
on Monday, March 02nd, 2009 at
05:30 pm at
India Islamic Cultural Centre (Conference Hall-II), Lodi Road,
New Delhi
(Kindly join
us for tea and snacks at 05:30 pm & dinner at 7:30 pm)
S. Nirmal Singh Raipuri Fr. Packiam
Samuel Smt. Laxmi Sharma Dr. S. Zafar Mahmood
Vice President
General Secretary Vice
President President
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EBOO PATEL,
Founder and Executive Director
Eboo Patel is the
founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based
international nonprofit working to build mutual respect and pluralism among
religiously diverse young people by empowering them to work together to serve
others. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the
Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology
of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He
writes "The Faith Divide", a featured blog on religion for The Washington Post
and has also written for the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, the Chicago
Tribune, The Clinton Journal, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The
Journal of College and Character and National Public Radio. Eboo serves on the
Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National
Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA, the Advisory Board of Duke
University's Islamic Studies Center, and the National Board of the YMCA. He has
spoken at the TED Conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace
Prize Forum and at universities around the world. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow,
part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the
world; was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries
shaping Islam in America; was chosen by Harvard's Kennedy School Review as one
of five future policy leaders to watch; and was given an honorary doctorate from
Washington and Jefferson College.
He was
recently appointed by President Obama to the White House Council on
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