Category: Past Events Published Date
Date: 04 Apr 2008
Title: LIVING ISLAM OUT LOUD - American Muslim Women Speak
Speakers: Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil, Aroosha Zoq Rana, Samina Ali
Event Details
With the Name of God, All-Merciful, Most Merciful
The City Circle invites you to "LIVING ISLAM OUT LOUD - American Muslim Women Speak," a presentation and book-signing.
Living Islam Out Loud is a provocative and no holds barred presentation of the first generation of American Muslim women; women who have always identified themselves as both American and Muslim. These women are forging their own paths and in the aggregate are creating an American Muslim identity.
Living Islam Out Loud portrays sixteen American Muslim women, ages 25 to 40, who are contributing to public life in extraordinary ways and willing to share honestly about the experiences that have shaped their lives.
Each woman, in a first person, intimate account, reveals her passage to becoming an American Muslim woman. The contributors are sisters, mothers, wives and daughters. Some are professionals and others are students. Some trace their ancestry to distant Africa, others to India, one to Palestine -by way of Brooklyn and another to Panama- but all claim American roots. These women live on the West Coast, the Northeast, Middle America and the Mid Atlantic and even the deep South. They claim the complete spectrum of Islam including the Sunni and Shia traditions and the legacy of the Nation of Islam.
Living Islam Out Loud is an unprecedented compilation of American Muslim women writing about identity, spirituality, relationships, activism, sex and sexuality, hijab and more. While they disagree on much, they share the desire for authentic sisterhood and self-determination for themselves and for all Muslim women. They are the future faces of Islam.
Free entrance. All welcome.
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