Free and open to all on November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Greenberg Theater is located at 4200 Wisconsin Ave. at the corner of Van Ness St., just a short distance from AU’s main campus, Tenley Campus, and from the Tenleytown/AU Metrorail Red Line stop.
Parking: Available in guarded underground lot on north side of Van Ness St., just west of Wisconsin Ave.
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The United States is a country founded on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance. These fundamental ideas are revisited in Journey into America, a documentary that explores American identity through the Muslim lens. Professor Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, traveled with a team of young Americans for nine months, visiting over 75 cities and 100 mosques in the United States. The result is an unprecedented effort to understand the nuanced dimensions of Islam in America, and its place within the broader American identity.
Journey into America – the companion to Professor Ahmed’s earlier study Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization, which documents Ahmed’s tour of the Muslim world – is the first consolidated anthropological study on the Muslim-American community. Five Americans were chosen to be part of the team – Craig Considine (the film’s director), Madeeha Hameed, Jonathan Hayden, Frankie Martin, and Hailey Woldt. According to Ahmed, the team members were not only instrumental in conducting the necessary fieldwork, but they also acted as his ‘guides’ on the journey.
For those of you in the Denver area, please come out to The University of Colorado Denver on Thursday October 15 where we will be showing the film in the Public Policy Film Series at 11:30 a.m. Frankie and Jonathan will be in Denver to talk about the film and answer questions.
Thu, Oct 15 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Auraria Campus, King Center Recital Hall
A few years ago, my friend and senior leader in the work of religious pluralism, Akbar Ahmed, took on an unprecedented project. He traveled across the country – accompanied by five exceptional young people – to learn about Islam in America.
As one of the world’s most prominent researchers on Islam and the Muslim world, Akbar previously conducted an important work -Journey into Islam – where he and several young companions traveled to three major regions of the Muslim world to learn what Muslims think and how they view America.
His new project, Journey into America, is the companion to that.
The rest of the review can be found at the Washington Post On Faith website here.
Please come out to the beautiful Washington National Cathedral on Sunday October 25 for a screening and discussion at 5:30 p.m. Please reserve your tickets here.
Here is the trailer for Journey into America for those who have not seen it.
A reminder that Dave Eggers’ book Zeitoun is out in bookstores. We worth a read. Eggers is also the writer of the soon to be released “Where the Wild Things Are” movie.
Zeitoun, if you remember (we wrote about here), was imprisoned after Hurricane Katrina for several weeks by an unknown security agency that never gave its its identity or explained why. The video from our interview is re-posted below.
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