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Blasphemy laws in Islam and in Muslim-majority countries

Do blasphemy laws in Muslim-majority countries violate Qur’anic teachings?

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The Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue and the City of Bridges Foundation will co-host an interfaith dialogue with an expert on Islamic studies at an event entitled Prophet Muhammad’s Relations with Christians & What They Mean Today.

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Virtual Book Talk with Jonathan Downs:

Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt

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CAIR-NJ, TWM Introduces Educators’ Guide for Classroom Discussions of 9/11
The guide includes lesson plans and curriculum guides that will help teachers develop a more nuanced approach to the subject of 9/11 and its impact on Muslim students.

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The Meursaalt Investigation Register Book Discussion

November 4, 2022 6 PM EST (Virtual)

The Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies (CERIS) invites educators to a discussion by Kamel Koued that offers humanizing retelling of accounts in Albert Camus’1942, The Stranger.

The discussion will be led by Anour Rahmani, a writer and human rights defender from Algeria. His is an Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residence at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Modern Languages and City of Asylum.

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The relationship between authors and translators are some of the most connected and collaborative relationships in literature. But in books for young people, illustrators too play an extremely important role, communicating emotion and meaning, and informing and elevating translations.

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The UPenn Graduate School of Education's Hub for Equity, Anti-oppression, Research and Development (HEARD) invites you to join our community for an interactive panel to broaden our understanding of the ongoing impact of 9/11. Participants will learn more about US engagements in wars over the last two decades; the consequences and costs of these wars; and how and why we need to teach about war. Speakers will share research, pedagogical tools and curriculum resources that help us move beyond teaching about 9/11 to teaching beyond it.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. government declared Myanmar's mass killing of the Rohingya Muslim population to be a "genocide." This designation comes 6 years after the first incidence of mass violence was carried out by Myanmar's military against the long-persecuted and marginalized community.

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Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and South Asia Program Presents

Built to Fail: How Bureaucratic and Institutional Origins Undermined State Building in Afghanistan

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

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