Muslim Studies Resources: Muslim Journeys

Malcolm X Community Forum & Scholar-Led Campus-Community Book Discussion 

On Tuesday January 21 7pm at the Erikson Kiva, The MSU Muslim Studies Program’s Malcolm X Community Forum will feature inspirational educator and author Ilyasah Shabazz. Copies of her latest book, The Awakening of Malcolm X, will be sold at the event. Free livestream registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-malcolm-x-muslim-studies-community-forum-tickets-1116998024159

The week before Shabazz’ visit, Muslim Journeys will be discussing her latest young adult novel about her father, The Awakening of Malcolm X (written with Tiffany D. Jackson). Dr, John Aerni-Flesser will lead our discussion at the East Lansing Public Library on Thursday January 16^th at 7pm. The East Lansing Public Library is located at 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI, 48823. Zoom option at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84499956594

Dr. John Aerni-Flessner teaches in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at MSU. He is a Core Faculty member of the MSU African Studies Center and a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State (South Africa). His research has primarily focused on the history of the southern African country of Lesotho. He has taught courses on Malcolm X and, with his students, researched and created the digital project Malcolm X in Lansing.

The book will be available for borrowing on three-day Reserve at the MSU Main Library Circulation Desk, at the East Lansing Public Library and Capital Area District Libraries, through MelCat and available for purchase at EVERYbody Reads. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to read the book ahead of time.

Co-sponsored by the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing, LATTICE (Linking All Types of Teachers to International Cross Cultural Education), and Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation of Metro Lansing

Please join us for one or both events!

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Scholar-led Campus-Community Book Discussion Event

Thursday November 21st, 7-9pm, MSU Main Library Green Room (4th floor West side), 366 W. Circle Dr.

All are welcome to learn and discuss We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by human rights lawyer and acclaimed author Raja Shehadeh. In this slim volume, Shehadeh recounts his family’s unique story within the arc of Palestinian history and politics. MSU College of Communications, Arts & Sciences faculty member Dr. Saleem Alhabash will share his thoughts on the book, as well as some of his own experiences growing up in Ramallah, Palestine where he was editor of a youth newspaper.

The book is available for borrowing on Reserve at the MSU Main Library Circulation Desk, as an ebook (remote access for MSU students/faculty/staff), at East Lansing Public Library and Capital Area District Libraries, through MelCat and available for purchase at Everybody Reads. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to read the book ahead of time.

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Curator-Led Tour of Samia Halaby: Eye Witness Exhibition 

Wednesday, September 25 6-8pm at the MSU Broad Art Museum, 547 E Circle Dr, 

Samia Halaby, Green Mirror Sphere, 1968. Courtesy of the artist, New York.
Photo and copyright: Samia Halaby, New York.

Join curator Rachel Winter for a special Muslim Journeys tour of the exhibition Samia Halaby: Eye Witness at the MSU Broad Art Museum. Journey through noted abstract painter Samia Halaby's life as an art student at MSU, through her time in the Midwest and the East Coast, including visits back to Jerusalem and the Arab World. Experience her drawings, paintings, and digital art in her first American museum retrospective. Come at 6pm to see the exhibition on your own; the tour will begin at 6:30.

Free and open to the public; space is limited, so please register in advance: https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/13092476

Co-sponsored by The MSU Libraries, MSU Muslim Studies Program, the MSU Broad Art Museum, and the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing 

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