Day: March 24, 2011

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

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Art

Metropolitan Museum’s Moroccan Courtyard Takes Shape – NYTimes.com

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Metropolitan Museum’s Moroccan Courtyard Takes Shape – NYTimes.com. Almost 30 years later the museum was embarking on the most ambitious rethinking and rebuilding of its Islamic art galleries in its history, a $50 million endeavor. At the heart of those galleries, which will open in the fall after being closed six years, it dreamed of showcasing the defining feature of Moroccan and southern Spanish Islamic architecture: a medieval Maghrebi-Andalusian-style courtyard, which would function in much the same way such courtyards still do in the traditional houses and mosques of Marrakesh or Casablanca, as their physical and spiritual center.

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Video

‘In a Better World’ and Other Films on Islam – NYTimes.com

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‘In a Better World’ and Other Films on Islam – NYTimes.com. AT the Oscars last month the gap between what interests Hollywood and what the rest of the world seems to be doing was sharp and clear. Of the five nominees for the best foreign-language film, all but one, among them the winner, “In a Better World,” from Denmark, dealt in some way with relationships between the West and Islam.

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