Hussein Rashid

Academic. Speaker. Educator. Advocate.

Events

Speaking Event: Harvard – Comics and Muslim Identity, April 30, 2011

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The final two events in our year of programming around comics, graphic novels, the Middle East and Muslim communities will be happening at the end of the month!

The panel event on Saturday, April 30th from 10:00 – 2:00 on the Harvard Divinity School campus will bring together scholars engaging with the intersections between comics and Muslim identity from a variety of vantage points. See more information here.

The afternoon and evening preceding the panel we will be running, with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and open comic making workshop from 11:00am – 4:00pm (See more information here). The goal of this workshop is to engage Harvard students and Boston community members in sharing and communicating their experiences living, traveling, learning, and teaching about the Middle East region and / or Muslim identity through comics arts. We will additionally be Skyping with grassroots and independent comics artists in the Middle East region to learn more about their process and projects.

Graphic Novels and the Middle East Website

Comics and Muslim Identity Flyer

Events

The Ismaili: Video: The Islamic impact on American arts

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The Ismaili: Video: The Islamic impact on American arts.

Dr Hussein Rashid delivered a lecture titled Everyday Art: An Islamic Impact on American Art on 13 February 2011 at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In the talk, Dr Rashid highlights Islamic influences on popular art in America — from architecture and popular media to poetry and writing — by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his From Persian of Hafiz II, to Toni Morrison’s portrayal of Muslim characters in her novel Beloved. The lecture followed two exhibitions on Islamic calligraphy at the museum.

Events

Scholar to Present Seminar on Islam for Clergy

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Scholar to Present Seminar on Islam for Clergy.

Contact: Patrick Verel
(212) 636-7790
verel@fordham.edu
  

An expert on Islam will explore its basic history, concepts and calendar at a free seminar for New York-area clergy. 

“Islam 101” will be presented by Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., visiting instructor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. 

When: Tuesday, March 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Where: 12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center campus 

RSVP: before Thursday, March 24 to Mary Tennermann (212) 665-0732 ext. 237

Media Appearances

Quoted: Press Release for Prepare NY

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Major Coalition Formed to Bolster Tolerance and Healing as Tenth Anniversary of… — NEW YORK, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —.

“I am exceptionally proud to be a New Yorker,” said Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., a principal instructor at Quest, another of the coalition partners. “After the events of 9/11, we came together as a city. Now, 10 years later, we need to actively work to heal our city, to have some of the conversations we never had, and to lead our country by example. This coalition of faith-based organizers and institutions is our contribution back to New York City.”

Media Appearances

Quoted: Politics Daily

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Muslim Baiting: Peter King’s Dangerous Obsession.

Agrees Hussein Rashid, a professor at Hofstra who blogs at HusseinRashid.com: “Most domestic terror does not come from the Muslim community. The equivalent would have made all Irish Catholics suspects in ’80s, Jews in Communist era, blacks in rise of the Black Panthers, or that all Italians would be responsible for the mob. It is unacceptable. 

“It shows that King is unaware of his constituency in New York. It shows a real lack of engagement with those constituencies and shows a real lack of awareness of what being in charge of Homeland Security actually means — it means engaging on what unites us rather than [what’s] dividing us. . . . Diverting law enforcement resources away from real threats to investigating our community, well, that opens holes in our safety net.”

Media Appearances

The Ismaili: Voices of the media: Conversations with Ismaili media professionals

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The Ismaili: Voices of the media: Conversations with Ismaili media professionals.

The notion of what it means to be a Muslim in the western world is explained quite well by Dr. Hussein Rashid, Professor of Religious Studies at Hofstra University in New York and Associate Editor of Religion Dispatches. As an academic, a speaker, and an educator, Professor Rashid’s topics are generally focused on Islam and its followers, interfaith issues, religion and politics, and religion and popular culture, including news media. He has appeared on CBS Evening News, CNN, Russia Today, Channel 4 (UK), and State of Belief—Air America Radio. 

“The reality is that Muslims are people, so show them as people,” says Dr. Rashid, indicating that media’s role is not to colour a story by injecting a religious angle into it. “Religion is important, but it is not the whole story,” he adds.

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Visiting Scholar Virginia Theological Seminary

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Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) welcomes Dr. Hussein Rashid to campus this week as the Center for Anglican Communion Studies’ (CACS) Visiting Muslim Scholar. During his eight week stay at the Seminary, Rashid will teach a course entitled, “Not so Common Stories: Prophets in the Qur’an and the Bible.”

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“Dr. Rashid’s enthusiasm for interreligious engagement, vast experience, and engaging demeanor will make him extremely popular with our students,” said the Rev. Robin Razzino, interreligious officer for CACS. “Having a scholar with his background will allow VTS to continue to offer students opportunities to be in conversation with others who can help inform their ministries.”

Virginia Seminary Welcomes Muslim Scholar Hussein Rashid

Thanks to the Luce Grant, we are delighted to welcome to the campus Dr. Hussein Rashid. With a PhD from Harvard University, he describes himself as a ‘proud Muslim and native New Yorker’. He has his own ‘in between’ ministry for he teaches at both Hofstra University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. With a range of fascinating interests from the impact of 9/11 on Muslim adolescents to emerging Muslim-American musics, he is a cutting edge scholar with an international reputation.

Dean’s Message

Events

Speaking Engagement: Emory University, Feb. 13

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Special Lecture

Everyday Art: The Islamic Impact on American Arts

Sunday, February 13th

2:00 p.m.

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
571 South Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

http://www.carlos.emory.edu/

Presented by Dr. Hussein Rashid, visiting professor at Virginia Theological Seminary

American popular culture—the art that surrounds us every day—reflects the tremendous cultural diversity of the American people, and helps to shape the way Americans understand themselves. Perhaps the least understood of these influences is the cultural impact of the various Muslim communities that have settled in the United States.

Starting from the period of slavery and continuing through to the present day, the tapestry of influences that converge in popular music, architecture, and literature—the arts we engage with every day—bears witness to the presence of Muslims in America.

In this richly illustrated talk, Dr. Hussein Rashid explores the Islamic impact on American popular culture using examples from multiple communities and time periods throughout American history.

Dr. Hussein Rashid is a passionate instructor at one of the largest interfaith centers in Manhattan, housed at the Park Avenue Christian Church. He is also an Associate Editor at Religion Dispatches, and has appeared on CBS Evening News, CNN, Russia Today, Channel 4 (UK), and State of Belief—Air America Radio.

This program is generously sponsored by His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for the Southeastern United States.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Image Credits (above): Comedian Aasif Mandvi and Boxer Muhammad Ali, Wikipedia Commons Cover Art, Domestic Crusaders, McSweeney´s Magazine

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