Moving Walls Educational Forum

The Open Society Institute Baltimore and Maryland Art Place sponsored an educational forum in connection with Moving Walls, OSI's traveling photographic exhibition. Community members and journalists were invited to join photographers and experts on civil liberties and Muslim life in the United States in a discussion about issues evoked by the photographs. Moderated by Marc Steiner, WYPR executive vice president and host of the Marc Steiner Show, the forum panel included:

• Leon Faruq, a 2003 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who has worked extensively with ex-prisoners and is a long-time practicing African-American Muslim;
• Susan Goering, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, who has longstanding experience representing and supervising numerous civil liberties cases;
• Edward Grazda, a photographer who recently published New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York. For over two decades, Grazda has photographed Muslim communities ranging from African-American and indigenous families in the United States to more traditional practitioners in Pakistan and Afghanistan;
• Lori Grinker, a photographer who recently published After War: Veterans from A World in Conflict. Since 1989, Grinker has photographed and interviewed veterans who served on the frontlines in conflicts ranging from World War I to Kosovo.

An audio excerpt from the forum is available below.