Arab American National Museum, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Please join AANM, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University for a full-day, hybrid professional development workshop. The workshop invites educators to hear from fellow Arab American educators and authors on how to incorporate Arab American voices & perspectives in the classroom curriculum. The workshop will be held at AANM; virtual attendees are also welcome to register for a Zoom link.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Tunisia’s democratic transition, under severe strain in recent years, stands at the precipice of total collapse. Recent presidential elections on October 6 saw the exclusion of nearly all candidates and restrictions on the few who ran. Are there any prospects left for democracy in the birthplace of the “Arab Spring”?
Immersive and gripping, Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer prize-winning book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine that offers a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
The One State Reality argues that a one state reality already predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The One State Reality forces a reconsideration of foundational concepts such as state, sovereignty, and nation, encourages different readings of history, and provides context for confronting uncomfortable questions such as whether Israel/Palestine is an "apartheid state."
Countries across the world are experiencing an alarming rise in ethnonationalism, including in Western self-described democracies. Expressed in racial or religious exclusionary terms, these often-violent movements are led or enabled by governments as a means of scapegoating minorities for failed policies and poor governance. In the most extreme cases, these contemporary ethnonationalist movements seek to ethnically cleanse or eliminate an entire religious or racial minority from the nation-state.
Akyol will discuss key ideas from his recent book, The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World. The talk will address historical episodes of coexistence and collaboration between Jewish and Muslim communities, drawing attention to how these experiences can inform current perspectives on governance and pluralism.
Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Department of Religious Studies Jewish Studies Program European Studies Center University Center for International Studies
In case you missed last week's event with Dr. Sherman Jackson, the Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding posted a recording of the event.
In his latest book, Dr. Sherman Jackson contends that the basic point of the secular in the modern West is to "liberate" certain pursuits--the state, the economy, science--from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of "secular" in Islam.
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and Democracy for the Arab World Now
