Amir is a hot-shot corporate lawyer in Manhattan. He’s also a Pakistani-American whose white wife is an artist interested in Islamic forms. When Amir is mistakenly linked to a Muslim leader, his world begins to unravel. Matters come to a head when he and his wife host a dinner party for another couple – a Black female attorney and her Jewish husband.
A free, five-part webinar series created by Tanenbaum and Teaching Tolerance to help teachers create inclusive classrooms and promote religious literacy.
The Zahra Center - Based on the novel "Surviving Zahra" by Fatima Aly Jaffer, directed by Iman Mazloum, this is a play about the culture of silence regarding domestic abuse and sexual assault in North American Muslim communities, set against a backdrop of a seven day long wedding with matchmaking aunties and annoying sister-in-laws. This play offers a narrative of the North American Muslim experience while also exploring issues that are seen as taboo topics in most societies. Performance dates are March 26th and 27th at 2 p.m. in the McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University.
We hope you will join us for a showing of the inspiring short film Of Many, a movie that focuses on the surprising and transformative relationship between Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif, who serve as university chaplains at New York University. The film is set against the dramatic backdrop of violence in the Middle East and the tension between Jewish and Muslim students on college campuses.
