Tonight! Program: What is Islam? at the Buchanan Center for the Arts

Tonight the program ISLAM 101: What is Islam? will be presented at the Buchanan Center for the Arts in downtown Monmouth at 7:00 pm. 

Presenter: Hannah Schell, Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Monmouth College.

Professor Schell will introduce Islam to the audience. Her opening presentation will be supplemented by comments from a panel of respondents from Monmouth College, including Mohsin Masood, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Monmouth College, Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Petra Kuppinger,  Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Masood & Haq are both Pakistani Muslims who have lived in the United States for many years. Masood has recently established a fund in the U.S. to support Malala, the young female student shot by Taliban extremists for her advocacy of education for females in Pakistan.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association, the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Oxford University Press, and Twin Cities Public Television. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.