NY Area Event: Shaykha Fest

Library Receives ‘Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys’ Grant – Around Town – East Meadow, NY Patch. The East Meadow Public Library was selected to participate in “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys,” 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,” according to East Meadow Public Library officials.   … The East Meadow Public Library chose the theme “American Stories,” to be discussed by Dr. Hussein Rashid from Hofstra University.

This looks to be an amazing event. My Generation: Muslim Millennials on the Future of Islam. Muslim millennials are often depicted either as radicalized promoters of Islamic global dominion or champions of democracy. But what do these two competing images tell us about the roughly 450 million young Muslims in the world today? And what, if anything, about the future of Islam? Reza Aslan, author, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam and Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization Musa Syeed, screenwriter and director, Valley of Saints and A Son’s Sacrifice Khalid Latif, chaplain, New York University Linda Sarsour, director, Arab American…