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In addition to the much anticipated Fireside Chat featuring award-winning journalist and author, Mehdi Hasan, we are thrilled to announce two more outstanding guests who will join us at this year's convention!
Sabrina Siddiqui
Journalist
 Sabrina Siddiqui is a White House reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she covers the Biden presidency. Ms. Siddiqui previously covered national politics at the Guardian, HuffPost and Bloomberg News. She has covered both the Trump and Obama administrations as well as the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Ms. Siddiqui has regularly appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CBS and PBS Washington Week. We are honored to have Sabrina Siddiqui interview Mehdi Hasan for our Fireside Chat.
Mustafa Akyol
Author, Scholar
 Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. From 2013 to 2021, Akyol was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, covering politics and religion in the Muslim world. He is the author of Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, Why, As A Muslim, I Defend Liberty, The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims, and Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty.
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