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Featuring Dr. Hatem Bazian (Zaytuna College & UC Berkeley), Amira Elghawaby (Canadian Race and Relations Foundation) and Dr. Adnan A. Husain (Queen's University)

In the five years since the Quebec City mosque massacre that killed 6 Muslim worshippers and wounded many more, the grave problem of Islamophobia has grown only more serious in Quebec, in Canada and beyond. Why? How has it manifested, what are the forms Islamophobia has taken? The panel takes a historical and global approach to analyze the wider significance and deeper relevance of this tragic event to the politics and experience of Muslims not only locally in Quebec but in Canada, North America, Europe and elsewhere. Also, the panel explores how Islamophobia has functioned culturally and politically in the broader history of Europe and North America. By understanding these dimensions of the problem, we can hope better to combat this form of racial and religious bigotry.

Live Lecture with Dr. Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror

Twenty years after the launch of the US-led War on Terror, are we any clearer in our understanding of what the War was and why it took place? Academic research has been piecemeal while critical journalists have tended to focus upon corporate interests in explaining the War. In this lecture, Dr. Arun Kundnani probes the War on Terror's neocolonial, racist, Islamophobic dimensions and locates its origins in a broader process of neoliberal restructuring.

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This event is co-organized by MSGP and SNID.

 

The Arab Spring: Revolutions a Year After Tahrir

Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Location: MC D207
Time: 11:30am-1pm

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FIRST CANADIAN SCREENING:

  THE IRAN JOB

Directed by Till Schauder

Producers Sara Nodjoumi & Till Schauder

Executive Producer Abigail Disney

Co-Producers The Post Republic

 

THE IRAN JOB is a documentary about Kevin Sheppard, a young professional American basketball player, who is offered a contract to play ball for a provincial club in Iran. Despite the trepidations of his family and girlfriend in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, he sets out for the city of Shiraz to join a team with a dismal record. The film follows Kevin's interaction with his Iranian teammates, his Serbian roommate (one of the two foreign members allowed on the team) and his friendship with three very independent Iranian women. Kevin's sojourn is set against the backdrop of the 2008 election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States (who promised to improve relations with the Muslim world) and the 2009 Green Revolution, the wide-spread protests that contested the results of the Iranian presidential elections.

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This will be the first screening in Canada, in advance of the film’s official debut at the Vancouver International Film Festival on October 5th.

The event speaker and moderator will be Dr. Ariel Salzmann (History, Queen's).

Although there is no charge for the screening, a voluntary contribution would be welcomed. THE IRAN JOB is an example of how grassroots funding can help young filmmakers like Schauder and Nodjoumi bring to the screen an important and timely documentary. Professor Salzmann was one of hundreds of early contributors to the film. Now that the film is complete and screenings will begin (in L.A. on September 28th and at the Vancouver Film Festival on Oct 5, 7 and 11.), the filmmakers have again turned to grassroots support to give the film wider distribution. Viewers may donate what they wish at the event. This link (if link does not work, please copy and paste URL)   leads to the Kickstarter campaign to help the filmmakers distribute the film more widely in North America.

 

Speaker: Karin Ruhrdanz (Curator of Islamic Art, Royal Ontario Museum)

*Sponsor: Islamic History Month event

The One Kingdom Solution?:
Marriage, Diplomacy and Sovereignty in the Third Crusade

Muslim Societies, Global Perspectives at Queen's invites you to a welcome reception and talk, "The One Kingdom Solution?: Marriage, Diplomacy and Sovereignty in the Third Crusade" by Adnan Husain (History) and Margaret Aziza Pappano (English).

Date: Friday, October 12, 2012

Location: Robert Sutherland Hall 202 (Policy Studies Room)

Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm (with reception to follow after)

 The talk, co-sponsored with Gender Studies and commemorating October as Islamic History Month, examines a proposal by Richard the Lionheart to marry his sister Joanne to Salah al-Din's brother, al-Malik al-Adil as part of peace negotiations.  

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