Author, Muslim feminist, and former Wall Street Journal reporter, will speak on antisemitism before and after the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, and why she seeks to fight extreme interpretations of Islam that divide people "with a sectarianism that used her friend and fellow Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's identity as a Jew as an excuse to brutally murder him."

A friend and supporter of East Brunswick's Daniel Pearl Education Center since its founding more than 20 years ago, Asra is the author of "Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America's Freedom" and "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam" and a regular commentator on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, the Washington Post, the New York Times and BBC.