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Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and a contentious figure in recent years, was in Ottawa last week at the invitation of the College of the Humanities and the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His talk was titled "Identity and Engagement: Western Muslims and the Public Sphere."
On April 7, a panel discussion was held at New York's Cooper Union. It was organized by PEN American Center, the ACLU, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Slate magazine. This was Ramadan's first public appearance in the United States since 2004. At that time, Ramadan — who had been offered a position at Notre Dame University as chair of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies — saw his visa revoked by the Department of Homeland Security, testing the balance between liberty and national security in a country still in the throes of a long war against terror.