Muslim Studies Program December 16, 2016 News and Events Please share with other faculty, students, and community. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming Muslim Studies Program Events
Teach-In
presented by Muslim Studies Program Core Faculty
Friday, January 27, 11:30 am
Room 303 International Center
Details to follow
Mustlim Studies Program Faculty Panel
Friday, February 3 at 12:00 noon
303 International Center
with Chantal Tetreault, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Monir Monirizzam, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Linda Sayed, Visiting Assistant Professor, James Madison College
Muslim Women and the Freedom to Choose
Thursday, February 16 at noon
303 International Center
with special guest Professor Lila Abu-Lughod
What can we learn from public debates about Muslim women that hinge on a right—the “right to choose freely”--that has been enshrined in international feminist conventions and that animates the popular American imagination of such practices as veiling and arranged marriage? As an anthropologist, I look to the everyday lives of young women in one Egyptian village to open up new ways of thinking about choice and to expose the politics behind fantasies about this concept. Lila Abu-Lughod isthe Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she teaches anthropology and women's studies.
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Assistant Professor of Anthropology/African American Studies
Purdue University
February 22, noon
Room 303 International Center
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist who uses anthropology and performance to explore the intersections of race and popular culture. She received in her PhD in cultural anthropology from Princeton University and is a graduate from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has an Islamic Studies diploma from the Institute at Abu Nour University (Damascus). Her latest work, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States (NYU Press 2016), is an ethnography on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge and reconstitute US racial orders. Su’ad’s written work on Islam and hip hop is accompanied by her performance ethnography, Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. Sampled is a one-woman solo performance designed to present and represent her research and findings to diverse audiences in a way that disrupts accepted narratives on race and gender, religion, popular culture and citizenship in the contemporary United States. Her publications include “Muslim Youth Cultures” (The Cambridge Companion to American Islam, 2013), “Rep that Islam: the Rhyme and Reason of American Muslim Hip Hop”(The Muslim World, 2007), and “Black Arabic: African American Muslims and the Arabic language” which appears in the edited volume Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
The Politics of Arabic in Israel:
A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Camelia Suleiman
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Date & Time: Friday, March 24, 3:30 pm
Room 201 International Center
Camelia Suleiman has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University, with a specialization in Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis. Her research interest is in the area of language and identity in relation to gender, politicians' use of language in the media, and national identity, in both the American and the Arab countries’ contexts. She has also received a number of awards and recognition including an award for ‘distinguished women in academia’ from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At MSU she serves as the Arabic language coordinator, as well as she has been directing the Arabic Flagship Program.
I am Rohingya
Film showing and discussion with director, Yusuf Zine
Monday, March 27, 6:30 pm
Wells Hall B-117
The play chronicles the harrowing Rohingya refugee experiences told from the perspective of the Rohingya Canadian youth community. This is a powerful and emotional drama about life, loss, violence, and hope that chronicles the lives of 'the most oppressed people on Earth.' Explore the process behind the making of I Am Rohingya here.
Amir Sulaiman poet, recording artist,
Harvard Fellow, actor,
screen writer and producer
MSU Main Library Green Room, 4th Floor
Wednesday, April 12 at 7 pm
Other on-campus events
(not organized by the Muslim Studies Program)
that might be of interest
Weekly Event Diwan Arabic Tea and Conversation Hour
Wednesdays at 4:00 - 5:00 pm January 18 - April 19 305 International Center
Arabic Diwan is a gathering of Arabic students who are in the Arabic program, where they speak the language and learn about the culture in a relaxed environment with our Fulbright teaching assistant. Students from all Arabic language levels are encouraged to attend. We extend the invitation to Arabic-speaking students from the English Center as well.
