The Department of American Studies proudly presents an advance screening of AMERICAN MUSLIMS: A HISTORY REVEALED on Thursday, November 14, 7-9 PM, at the Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus, 105 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway. Perhaps now, more than ever, we need to understand this untold history, as we chart a path forwards in these terrible times. AMERICAN MUSLIMS is a landmark series of short documentary films that reveal and explore the untold histories of Muslims—in all their diversity and complexity—in the United States. Beginning on October 17, the series aired its first episode on PBS Digital platforms, with a new episode to be released every two weeks. Join us to watch unaired episodes together, followed by a panel with the project’s Executive Producers Graham Judd and Zaheer Ali, producer and writer Mafaz Al-Suwaidan and journalist/host/author (and Mason Gross alum) Aymann Ismail, moderated by Professor )and AMerican Studies faculty member) Sylvia Chan-Malik). The event will start with a short reception with halal food.
One of the episodes features the original research of Professor Chan-Malik on Florence Watts, or Sister Zeineb, one of the Black American women who is in the earliest known group photo of Muslim women in the United States (1922).
Seating is limited, so please register HERE. You may also register through the QR code on the flyer attached below.
The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers (CILRU), Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Religion, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
