Every year the Nursi Chair hosts JCU's Week of Islamic Art and Culture in the spring. The Week of Islamic Art and Culture for 2024 will be April 16-19. All events will take place on the JCU Campus. This years events include:
April 16
Hebrew-Arabic Calligraphy Workshop by Ruben Shimonov (co-hosted by the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding)
Location: Jardine Room of the Lombardo Student Center
Time: 5:30pm
Regitstration is required for this event. You can register here:听https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1YM9XTt7X4o-wJxWIbl6KBKtVQoqoKbQe6o4hu7lPnXZbDg/viewform?pli=1
April 17
Lecture: "Expressions of Islamic Spirituality in Art"
Marcia Hermansen, Ph. D. (Professor and Director of Islamic World Studies, Loyola University Chicago)
For more on Professor Hermansen see: https://www.luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/hermansenmarcia.shtml
Location: Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology
Time: 7:00pm
April 18
贵颈濒尘:听Enemy of the Reich: The Noor听Inayat Khan Story
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story听presents one woman鈥檚 extraordinary courage, tested in the crucible of Nazi-occupied Paris. With an American mother and Indian father, Noor Inayat Khan was an extremely unusual British agent, and her life spent growing up in a Sufi center of learning in Paris seemed an unlikely preparation for the dangerous work to come.听Yet it was in this place of universal peace and contemplation that her remarkable courage was forged.
In early 1943, Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill鈥檚 Special Operations Executive (SOE). Churchill鈥檚 orders were to 鈥渟et Europe ablaze鈥. After the collapse and arrest of her entire network, Khan became the only surviving radio operator linking the British to the French Resistance in Paris, coordinating the airdrop of weapons, explosives, and agents, and supporting the rescue of downed Allied fliers.
Betrayed by a French collaborator after four months, Khan resisted brutal interrogation by the Gestapo, escaping twice 鈥 only to be recaptured and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
Narrated by Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren,听Enemy of the Reich听was directed by three-time Emmy Award winner Robert H. Gardner and features a team of international scholars.
Location: Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology
Time: 7:00pm
听April 19
Music: A presentation of Sufi Music featuring Bekir Salim.听
Location: Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology
Time: 7:00pm
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