Arts from Islamic Lands Festival – Children’s Museum of Manhattan – May 5 & 6, 2012

ISPU- Research and Analysis on Islam, the American Muslim community, US Foreign Policy and Public Health. Hussein Rashid is an ISPU Fellow and adjunct Instructor of Religion at Hofstra University.

Hussein Rashid. As one author expressed, avoiding thinking about death does not confer immortality.  Religious traditions bring a distinctive perspective to the end of the life cycle and the inevitability of death.  Recognizing mortality, often terrifying at first, can provide ultimate meaning for living when faced with acceptance and preparation.  In this week we will face destiny with practicality, inspiration, and perhaps joy.   

“On Common Ground”: CIW, faith leaders come together in NYC for “an extraordinary conversation”… – Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Hussein reflected a bit on human rights as that which we owe one another but “from a faith perspective, human dignity is vouchsafed by the divine, it is something is inherent and promised to us, over which we have no agency except to forget that we have it.  And that’s an important way to think through, ‘How do we assure dignity?’”   Appreciating the expertise that farmworkers brought to creating the Fair Food Program’s human rights solution and how important it is…