Wednesday, January 17th at 7pm
MSU Muslim Journeys Film Event at East Lansing Public Library
By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam
Directed by Zareena Grewal
In anticipation of activist and professional basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s visit to campus (see below), please join us at the East Lansing Public Library for a documentary film screening and special discussion with our scholars
Dr. Christina L. Myers (MSU School of Journalism)
And
Dr. Nura Sediqe (MSU Department of Political Science)
Free and open to the public, all welcome.
In 1996, basketball star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (formerly Chris Jackson) refused to stand during the national anthem, leading to his suspension from the NBA. The documentary examines media representations and the varied reactions within the Muslim community to his decision.
Related Event!
The 3rd Annual Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum featuring Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Activist and Professional Basketball Player
Lecture and Booksigning
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 7:00pm-8:30pm EST Erickson Kiva 620 Farm Ln., East Lansing, MI 48824
Lecture and book signing Hybrid format: In person (open to the public) and livestreamed. Free livestream registration at Muslim Studies Program :: Registration Links
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Muslim Journeys Art and Book Discussion
Wednesday October 25 7pm, MSU Main Library Green Room (4W)
Hybrid event, attend in person or via Zoom
Join us for a new Muslim Journeys scholar-led art and book discussion! Rachel Winter, Assistant Curator at the MSU Broad Art Museum, will present The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad, and, at the event, will screen the video Space Refugee by Turkish conceptual artist Halil Altindere. We’ll discuss both of the works and their relation to one another and to our world today.
Refreshments provided; free and open to the public. Reading the book before the event is encouraged but not required. The Pianist from Syria is widely available for borrowing from Michigan libraries.
Halil Altindere, Space Refugee, 2016, video (color, sound), 19:56 min., installation view at the Pilot Gallery, Istanbul, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Pilot Gallery, Istanbul.
Pianist from Syria by Aeham Ahmad
By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam (film) by Zareena Grewal
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Malcolm X (film) by Spike Lee
The Bosnia List by Kenan Trebincevic with Susan Shapiro
The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
The Great Muslim American Road Trip, hosts Mona Haydar & Sebastian Robins
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) by Riad Sattouf
Green Lanterns: Vol. 1 Rage Planet (Rebirth) DC Comics
Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Lover by Laury Silvers
American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun
Meherjaan (film directed by Rubaiyat Hossain)
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Moustafa Bayoumi
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest by Edward E. Curtis IV
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by María Rosa Menocal.
Prince Among Slaves (film directed, produced and written by Andrea Kalin; based on the book by Terry Alford)
Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Art of Hajj by Venetia Porter
The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam by F.E. Peters
Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown
The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton
The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson
from the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf: "Pathways of Faith" theme
Bridging Cultures Muslim Journeys was a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
X: A Novel was a Great Michigan Read from the Michigan Humanities Council.
Community partners have included: The Islamic Society of Greater Lansing, The East Lansing Interfaith Clergy Association, Truth Racial Healing and Transformation of Metro Lansing, Capital Area District Libraries, East Lansing Public Library, LATTICE (Linking All Types of Teachers to International Cross-Cultural Education).
Space Refugee (art video) by Halil Altindere
E-mails from Scheherazad by Mohja Kahf
A Rumi Anthology edited and translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
