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 will be sold at the event.
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). University Distinguished Professor Pero Dagbovie, a public historian, will lead our discussion at the East Lansing Public Library on Thursday January 16th at 7pm. The East Lansing Public Library is located at 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI, 48823.
The book will be available for borrowing on 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.
Please join us for one or both events!
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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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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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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
By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam (film) by Zareena Grewal
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
The Pianist from Syria by Aeham Ahmad.
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
