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SUMMARY:Bridging the Great Divide: Teaching the Abrahamic Faiths  - Profes
 sor Akbar Ahmed (American University\, CMJR)
DTSTART:20121122T170000Z
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CONTACT:Alice Thompson
DESCRIPTION:On the 22nd November CMJR Visiting Fellow Professor Akbar Ahme
 d will deliver a Woolf Institute lecture entitled "Bridging the Great Divi
 de: Teaching the Abrahamic Faiths". Former Ambassador Professor Akbar Ahme
 d is the author of over a dozen award-winning books\, including Discoverin
 g Islam\, and Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization. His book Jo
 urney into America: The Challenge of Islam (Brookings Press\, 2010) culmin
 ated in the full length documentary Journey into America\, and won the Ame
 rican Book Award for 2011. On September 11\, 2011\, Ahmed gave a sermon as
  part of the memorial service commemorating the decade since 9/11 at the S
 unday service at St. Alban’s Church\, the National Cathedral\, Washingto
 n\, D.C.\n\nProfessor Ahmed is currently working on a study which examines
  the role of America and the conflict between tribe and state in the Musli
 m world\, to be published by Brookings Press in 2012.
LOCATION:Garden Room\, Library Building\, St. Edmunds College
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