The Festival of Faiths keynote speaker this year is Ebrahim Patel, an Indian-born Muslim American who goes by the nickname “Eboo.” His timely topic is Acts of Faith: Interfaith Cooperation in a Time of Religious Conflict. As founder of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, he is building a global interfaith youth movement.

We hope you join us to hear Eboo Patel. The date... Tuesday evening - the 10th of November at 7:30pm - at Congregation Beth Shalom, 9400 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64114.

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Featured on National Public Radio, CNN, and The Washington Post, Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation.

Eboo Patel was recently appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Initiatives, where he is working to realize the President’s priority of interfaith cooperation. Tthe Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) is building a global interfaith youth movement.

Issues of religious diversity grow increasingly more apparent and pivotal in world affairs. Yet, the contemporary interfaith movement is dominated by people over 50. While youth are often exposed to aspects of diversity, religious diversity is rarely addressed. Religious identity is central for many of America’s youth.

“ This young social entrepreneur offers us a powerful way to deal with one of the most important issues of our time.”
– President Bill Clinton

Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He writes "The Faith Divide", a featured blog on religion for The Washington Post and has also written for the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, the Chicago Tribune, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Sunday Times of India and National Public Radio. Eboo serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA. He has spoken at the TED Conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and at universities around the world. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world; was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America; was chosen by Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch; and was most recently selected to join the Young Global Leaders network of the World Economic Forum.