{"id":1331,"date":"2017-09-07T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:58:45","slug":"dr-alaa-murabit-is-keynote-speaker-during-peace-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/dr-alaa-murabit-is-keynote-speaker-during-peace-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alaa Murabit is keynote speaker during Peace Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical doctor, sustainable development advocate, UN Commissioner, TED talker, Dr. Alaa Murabit will deliver the featured keynote address of Peace Week on September 14 at 7:00 p.m. in 5B.16. Open to the public, but a ticket is required. Please register and download a ticket. <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace\/dr-alaa-murabit\/\">https:\/\/tickets.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace\/dr-alaa-murabit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murabit is one of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Global Advocates, a United Nations High-Level Commissioner for Health Employment and Economic Growth, a TED speaker, the founder of VLW and MIT Media Lab Director\u2019s Fellow. She was recently named a 2017 Forbes Under 30 for her work in global health policy and a Harvard University Law 2017 \u201cWoman Inspiring Change\u201d. Nicknamed the \u201cLibyan Doogie Howser\u201d by Jon Stewart, Alaa founded VLW at the age of 21 and currently serves as a trustee for The Malala Fund, International Alert, and Keeping Children Safe and is an advisor to ConnectHer.<\/p>\n<p>An Ashoka Fellow, Alaa is the youngest Marisa Bellisario International Humanitarian Award recipient, an Ashoka Fellow, The New York Times \u201cInternational TrustWomen Hero 2014\u201d, Newsweek\u2019s \u201c25 under 25 to watch\u201d, a BBC News\u201c100 Top Woman\u201d, the 2015 SAFE Global Hero and a Virgin Unite Changemaker. Her TED Talk was named \u201cTED Talk of the Day\u201d and one of four \u201cmoving TED Talks to watch right now\u201d by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>All Peace Week <strong>activities are linked to the Dawson College Peace Centre\u2019s 2017-18 theme: Sustainable Peace: The Future of Our Well-Being, Environment and Institutions.<\/strong> In addition to the keynote speaker, this year\u2019s Peace Week schedule includes: daily meditation &amp; yoga; in collaboration with the Humanities &amp; Public Life conference, the second speaker is a local entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Sacred Fire Productions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/266354497189451\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A5%2C%22page_id_source%22%3A601757133223911%2C%22action_history%22%3A%5b%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22main_list%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22page_id%5C%22%3A601757133223911%2C%5C%22tour_id%5C%22%3Anull%7D%22%7D%5d%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D\">Nadine St Louis<\/a>; a Pop-Up Art Hive that will explore art as expression and therapy co-hosted and facilitated by the Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Hives and so much more! Check out the full schedule. <a href=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/peace-week-schedule-2017\/\">https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/peace-week-schedule-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical doctor, sustainable development advocate, UN Commissioner, TED talker, Dr. Alaa Murabit will deliver the featured keynote address of Peace Week on September 14 at 7:00 p.m. in 5B.16. Open to the public, but a ticket is required. Please register and download a ticket. https:\/\/tickets.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace\/dr-alaa-murabit\/ Dr. Murabit is one of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}