I am honored to be a respondent to the Spring 2014 McGinley Lecture on "Usury: A Moral Problem for Jews, Christians, and Muslims."
The lecture and response will be offered on April 8 (Manhattan Campus) and April 9 (Bronx Campus). Both dates will start at 6PM.
Details can be found here: http://www.fordham.edu/audience/mcginley_chair/fr_ryan.asp
EMPL receives Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys Grant
Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys is a scholar-led reading and discussion program designed to foster opportunities for informed community conversations about the histories, faith, and cultures of Muslims around the world and within the United States. This is only available to sites that have been selected to receive the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. ALA and NEH invited the humanities councils and public, academic, and community college libraries that are participating in the Bookshelf to apply for Let’s Talk About It. In May 2013, NEH and ALA selected 125 libraries and humanities councils to participate in the project. Each participating site will focus on one of five Muslim Journeys themes, hosting a five-part, scholar-led reading and discussion series exploring the theme and related books.
We have chosen the theme American Stories. Our scholar is the esteemed Dr. Hussein Rashid from Hofstra University. Look out for our accompanying programs. Please see our schedule of book discussions on Thursdays at 7 p.m. below:
Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford January 9
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (selections) Compiled by Edward E. Curtis, IV February 6
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel March 6
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, From the Middle East to America By Leila Ahmed (Special Guest Speaker) April 10
The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson May 8
Reem Hussein, Islamic Calligraphy Sunday, January 26
American born Muslim artist Reem Hussein holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art. She
completed her training in interior design and the restoration of antiques and decorative arts objects at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her study of antiques, and preserving of the visual aging qualities of metal, wood, and ceramics inspire the background renderings for her paintings. Traditional calligraphy is produced with a reed pen that the calligrapher herself carves, and homemade. Though Reem still practices her art using this medium, her finished works are usually in watercolor. Join us for this interactive presentation.
Reservations open on Monday, January 13.
ACTS OF FAITH: INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF RELIGIOUS CRISIS
A conversation with Dr. Eboo Patel
Recipient of Hofstra University’s 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize and Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core
Moderated by Dr. Hussein Rashid
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion, Hofstra University
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:30-6:30 p.m.
The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus
Media Contact: Rubenstein Associates, Melissa Mandel Kvitko, 212-843-8060, mmandel@rubenstein.com
Fordham Law Presents Interfaith Speaker Series on Sharing Sacred Space in Jerusalem
Fordham Law School’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work will host Part I of its Interfaith Speaker Series, titled “Sharing Sacred Space in Jerusalem,” on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 6 to 8:00 p.m. at Fordham Law School in New York City. The event will be cosponsored by the Auburn Theological Seminary and The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
The discussion will examine how religious space, particularly Jerusalem—a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims—has been historically shared; how religious communities have interpreted customary law; and how they have engaged each other to overcome and resolve conflict.
Nelson Tebbe, Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School will moderate the event, which will include lectures by Hussein Rashid, Adjunct Professor of Religion at Hofstra University; Mark Movsesian, Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law and Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University; and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America.
The event is free and open to the public. CLE credits are available.
Title: Sharing Sacred Space and the Law
Date: March 27, 2012
Time: 6 to 8:30 pm
Location: Fordham Law School, James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre
Sponsor: The Fordham Law Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work
Media contact: Melissa Mandel Kvitko, Rubenstein Associates, 212-843-8060, mmandel@rubenstein.com
Additional contact: Ana Renata Dias
Email: LawReligion@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212-636-7699
Website: Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work
CLE information: www.law.fordham.edu/cle
I was honored to be invited to Middle Collegiate Church to pray on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2012. During that time, they made a short video of the power of faith to change things that I participated in. The video is below:
Lead the Change from Middle Collegiate Church on Vimeo.
Hussein