WISSAM NASR
MCN Board
Wissam Nasr has been serving as a board member of MCN. He is currently focusing on empowering community leaders through his Muslim Congress Project and also heads the media committee of MCN.
Wissam Nasr has held positions in the fields of finance, education, and human rights. In 2000, he was awarded Amnesty International's Ralph Bunch Fellowship. He taught special education as a New York City Teaching Fellow at the a high-need school in Queens. He came to CAIR-NY during 2004 and recently was named a Coro New American Leaders Fellow. He was born in Egypt and raised in New York City.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(4), grassroots civil rights and advocacy group. CAIR is America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, with regional offices nationwide and in Canada. The national headquarters is located on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. The Chapter in New York City deals with many regional issues outside the city as well.
CAIR NY
475 Riverside Drive, Suite #246, New York, NY 10115
Telephone number: 212-870-2002.
Fax number is 212-870-2020.
Email is: director@cair-ny.org
Civil rights related issues contact Sister Nadia at: civilrights@cair-ny.org.
For more information please see the website: www.cair-ny.org, PICTURE
Since its establishment in 1994, CAIR has worked to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. Through media relations, lobbying, education and advocacy, CAIR puts forth an Islamic perspective to ensure the Muslim voice is represented. In offering this perspective, CAIR seeks to empower the American Muslim community and encourage their participation in political and social activism.
In 2004, CAIR processed a total of 1,522 incident reports of civil rights cases compared to 1,019 cases reported to CAIR in 2003. This constitutes a 49 percent increase in the reported cases of harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment from 2003 and marks the highest number of Muslim civil rights cases ever reported to CAIR in our eleven year history. In addition, CAIR received 141 reports of actual and potential violent anti-Muslim hate crimes, a 52 percent increase from the 93 reports received in 2003. In 2003, complaints concerning law enforcement techniques accounted for only 7 percent of all reported incidents. In 2004, however, these reports rose to almost 26 percent of all reported cases to CAIR.
Wissam Nasr has been serving as a board member of MCN. He is currently focusing on empowering community leaders through his Muslim Congress Project and also heads the media committee of MCN.
Wissam Nasr has held positions in the fields of finance, education, and human rights. In 2000, he was awarded Amnesty International's Ralph Bunch Fellowship. He taught special education as a New York City Teaching Fellow at the a high-need school in Queens. He came to CAIR-NY during 2004 and recently was named a Coro New American Leaders Fellow. He was born in Egypt and raised in New York City.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(4), grassroots civil rights and advocacy group. CAIR is America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, with regional offices nationwide and in Canada. The national headquarters is located on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. The Chapter in New York City deals with many regional issues outside the city as well.
CAIR NY
475 Riverside Drive, Suite #246, New York, NY 10115
Telephone number: 212-870-2002.
Fax number is 212-870-2020.
Email is: director@cair-ny.org
Civil rights related issues contact Sister Nadia at: civilrights@cair-ny.org.
For more information please see the website: www.cair-ny.org, PICTURE
Since its establishment in 1994, CAIR has worked to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. Through media relations, lobbying, education and advocacy, CAIR puts forth an Islamic perspective to ensure the Muslim voice is represented. In offering this perspective, CAIR seeks to empower the American Muslim community and encourage their participation in political and social activism.
In 2004, CAIR processed a total of 1,522 incident reports of civil rights cases compared to 1,019 cases reported to CAIR in 2003. This constitutes a 49 percent increase in the reported cases of harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment from 2003 and marks the highest number of Muslim civil rights cases ever reported to CAIR in our eleven year history. In addition, CAIR received 141 reports of actual and potential violent anti-Muslim hate crimes, a 52 percent increase from the 93 reports received in 2003. In 2003, complaints concerning law enforcement techniques accounted for only 7 percent of all reported incidents. In 2004, however, these reports rose to almost 26 percent of all reported cases to CAIR.