Announcements

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Syria in Context: Conversation with Joseph Bahout, Visiting Lecturer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Luke Peterson (Global Studies), with introduction by Michael Goodhart (Global Studies).

Lunch provided

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Come join Siavash Asadi, Ph.D. for a reflection on Salvation: Atonement and Intercession in Christian & Islamic Thought as part of the Religion & Society Series.

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In the absence of formal protection, how do communities living in refugee camps protect assets and buffer against outsider predation? Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees in camps across Lebanon and Jordan, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives, Nadya Haj, an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies at Wellesley College, traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources.

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In her now-classic 1981 essay “The Uses of Anger,” Audre Lorde commends anger as a force that allows us to attend to histories of structural oppression. In particular, she urges women of color to name and speak their anger aloud and challenges white feminists to hear it without getting defensive. Meeting Lorde’s charge—to tarry with anger—remains no less urgent and no less discomforting today than it was when she issued her call in 1981. A call to and for anger may even seem counter-intuitive and counter-productive in the age of Trump.

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Come join Ann Pellegrini for a workshop on the second chapter of her book Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. For a PDF of the readings contact Rachel Kranson at kranson@pitt.edu. Readings are also available at religiousstudies.pitt.edu.

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Dar al Islam is hosting its 27th annual summer Teachers’ Institute in rural Abiquiu, New Mexico on “Understanding Islam and Muslims.”The program is FREE for accepted educators including tuition costs, meals, and free transportation to and from the Albuquerque airport. July 9-22.

in Abiquiu, New Mexico since 1994.

We provide and discuss available resources and tools to help the participants in teaching about Islam more effectively.

Institutes attendees include secondary school teachers from public, private and parochial institutions of North America.

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Nazareth College, Hickey Center for interfaith Studies and Dialogue is pleased to announce its 4th international conference on Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Women and Gender in Religions on July 30 - August 1, 2017. The Conference is open to scholars in religious, theology, women and gender studies and other social scientists from US and abroad as presenters or participants.
* The proposal should be no more than 550 words.
* Send a 225-word resume that presents expertise in the area of your presentation.

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Join Dr. Abdullah Ali as he lectures on the concept of Blackness in the Islamic Tradition. His lecture will be followed by a moderated conversation with special guest Kristin George from the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley.

Join virtually: zaytuna.edu/LS

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Come join us for the Pittsburgh premiere of "The Sultan and the Saint," a docudrama film about Muslim-Christian peacemaking narrated by Academy Award Winner, Jeremy Irons.

About the film:

During the Crusades, Saint Francis of Assisi risked his life by walking across enemy lines to meet the Sultan of Egypt, the Muslim ruler Al-Malik al-Kamil. This remarkable encounter, and the commitment to peace of the two men behind it, sucked the venom out of the Crusades and changed the relationship between Muslims and Christians for the better.

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MACE Islamic Center is honored to be hosting its second annual conference celebrating The African American Muslim Journey. We are excited to be welcoming renowned scholar and dedicated community leader, Dr. Ihsan Bagby, our keynote speaker, along with other vital members of our community such as Shaykh Musa Sugapong, Imam Abbas and Dr. Nafissa Abdur Rasheed. Please join us in celebrating the inspiring legacy and the vital presence of the African American Muslims in our community.

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