Category: Events

MFAH | Artful Thursday: High Notes – Thursday, September 15, 2011 @ 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM. Billie Holiday’s wavy intonation has its roots in the muezzin’s call to prayer. The syncopated riffs and rhythms of blues guitar legend John Lee Hooker echo a traditional call-and-response, with painful lyrics about life, love, and faith. The be-bop and cool-jazz improvisations of John Coltrane are informed by numerous musical and meditative traditions, including those of Islam. Also indebted to this tradition are the folk rock of Steve Earle and the hip-hop of Mos Def. In this month’s Artful Thursday lecture, Hussein Rashid…

LIVE CHAT WITH HUSSEIN RASHID – Prepare New York. On Tuesday, June 21st from 12-1pm EST PrepareNY.com will be hosting another Online Chat designed to spark a new kind of conversation as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11.   This week’s featured guest will be: Hussein Rashid, Founder of the “Islamicate” blog site and contributor to the upcoming book “I Speak For Myself: American Men on Being Muslim.” https://islamicate.com/islamicate   Theme for the chat is “Religion and Politics.”

Everyday Art: The Islamic Impact on American Arts Saturday, May 21, 2011 3:00 p.m. Loyola University Museum of Art 820 North Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 LUC.edu/luma Flyer – Islamic Impact on American Arts.pdf

UT-Arlington Press Release The University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Liberal Arts and School of Architecture will welcome Hussein Rashid, visiting Professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, to the campus next week for a discussion on “Everyday Art: Islamic Contribution to American Arts.” Rashid will explore the Islamic impact on American popular culture using examples from multiple communities and time periods throughout American history. SMU Press Release Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University welcomes Dr. Hussein Rashid, visiting Professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, for an Islamic Art and Culture Forum on Thursday, April 21, at 1:30 p.m. “Everyday…

The final two events in our year of programming around comics, graphic novels, the Middle East and Muslim communities will be happening at the end of the month! The panel event on Saturday, April 30th from 10:00 – 2:00 on the Harvard Divinity School campus will bring together scholars engaging with the intersections between comics and Muslim identity from a variety of vantage points. See more information here. The afternoon and evening preceding the panel we will be running, with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and open comic making workshop from 11:00am – 4:00pm (See more information…

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

I will be speaking on a panel after the play Imagining Heschel, this Wednesday, November 17, 2010. You can buy tickets here, and if you use the code “INT50” you will get $10 off.