Video: American Sikh
Hussein I had the privilege of being able to join the Kickstarter for the film American Sikh, and be listed as a digital producer. It is a fantastic film, and highly encourage people to watch it. [My credit appears at around 9:25.]
September 2024
Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Media, Religion, and the Nation
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM
Religion and Democratic Ideals: Media, Religion, and the Nation
This event is free and open to the public. Register_Button
A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an analysis can help us construct pathways to achieving those goals.
This second session, “Media, Religion, and the Nation,” features Zeba Khan, San Fransisco Chronicle, Jesse Holland, George Washington University, and Syreeta McFadden, Borough of Manhattan Community College. Assistant Dean for RPL, Hussein Rashid, will act as moderator.
For decades, news media in the U.S. has been critiqued as reproducing structures of power and exclusion, including those in religions. While entertainment media has worked towards more inclusive storytelling recently, historically all media has been inconsistent in representing and engaging marginalized communities. This panel will examine how media framing creates our understanding of what the United States is and will discuss how we can be more literate media consumers.
Read this Q&A with Hussein Rashid, assistant dean for RPL, about the series and register for all four events.
Location Zoom Webinar
Sponsor Religion and Public Life
Contact rpl@hds.harvard.edu
Event: Building the Beloved Community in Our Time
Monday, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 @ 15:30 EST
RSVP REQUIRED
Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, President of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community, will be sharing the vision outlined in his book, and discussing with Dr. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik. Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. and the senior political director at Sojourners. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
RSVP to AKaram@Lead-Integrity.com latest by September 27
Abrahamic Faiths in Discussion Around Building the Beloved Community.pdf
Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Political Futures
TUESDAY, September 24, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM
This event is free and open to the public.
A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an analysis can help us construct pathways to achieving those goals.
This first session, “Political Futures,” features RPL Organizing Fellow, Josh Wolfsun, and RPL Arts and Popular Culture Fellow, Angélique Roché. Assistant Dean for RPL, Hussein Rashid, will act as moderator.
Moving from the exigencies of the moment, this conversation focuses on creating new communities, generating solidarity, imagining different economies, and asks how we can make the politics of the possible a reality.
Read this Q&A with Hussein Rashid, assistant dean for RPL, about the series and register for all four events.
Location Zoom Webinar
Sponsor Religion and Public Life
Contact rpl@hds.harvard.edu
Event: Book Talk: Islam in North America
This event is free and open to the public.
Co-editors Hussein Rashid and Huma Mohibullah discuss “Islam in North America: An Introduction.” After providing students with an introductory grounding in the field, chapters take a multidisciplinary approach, and focus on the expressions of Islam in its diverse forms. Students are encouraged to think beyond simple identifiers of “Muslim,” “American,” “Canadian,” or “Mexican”, and to consider how these identifiers exist in conversation with one another, and with others such as gender, class, race, sexuality, and ability.
The book provides a much-needed resource for students and instructors that acknowledges that Muslims navigate their identities in a world where Orientalist ideas continue to dominate politics, policy, and public imagination.
Featuring co-editors Hussein Rashid and Huma Mohibullah.
Please register by noon on Friday, September 20. Light snacks will be provided. Registration will still be accepted following this date.
Location Divinity Hall Room 114
Sponsor Religion and Public Life
Contact rpl@hds.harvard.edu