This year marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of Palestinian scholar, literary critic, and political activist Edward Said. The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center are proud to host their annual memorial lecture, honoring the legacy of the Professor Said, and the indelible marks he left.
Center for International Policy, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the Forum on the Arms Trade, and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
About the Book:The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the WMA has provided a space for Muslim women to build inclusive communities committed to gender and social justice, challenging the dominant mosque culture that has historically marginalized them through inadequate prayer spaces, exclusion from leadership, and limited access to religious learning.
This Reading Resource Pack was developed by researchers from the Global Justice Program at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, as part of its larger project documenting and countering Islamophobia.
Elsadig Elsheikh is the Global Justice Program Director at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Elsadig’s research focuses on global North-global South inequity as it relates to sociopolitical dynamics, nation-state and citizenship, and structural mechanisms of inclusion/ exclusion.
SpearIt, Professor of Law at Pitt and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies, will discuss his new book "Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition." Copies will be available for sale onsite.
