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Monday, March 22nd - Chai and Poetry 
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012

You won't want the relaxation of spring break to end...
So ease back into school with a night of chai and poetry!

Enjoy delicious tea and snacks as you lounge on plush cushions.

The event will be open mic so anyone and everyone is welcome to share their poetry or spoken word in English, Farsi, Pashto or Urdu!

Hosted by Afghan Students Association, Pakistani Students Association & Shuruq Muslim Culture Theme week

7:15pm - 10:00pm
5 Washington Place Room 101
New York, NY 10003

The Tug of War Tour is a thought-provoking and multi-dimensional artistic endeavor that explores narratives of conflict and co-existence between Muslims and Jews.

Iranian and Israeli rap duo Mazzi & Sneakas will come together with spoken word artists Vanessa Hidary and Tahani Salah for an evening of hip-hop and spoken word.
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NOTICE: DOORS OPEN @ 7:15PM, AND THE SHOW WILL BEGIN @ 7:45PM SHARP!
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Co-sponsored by the SHARP Lecture Series, Bronfman Center, Hillel, Gesher, Bridges, The Undergraduate Muslim Association

Thursday, March 25th - FBI Entrapment: Personal Stories of Preemptive Prosecution
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Vanderbilt Hall, room 220,
40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

The Fort Dix Five. Yassin Aref. The Newburgh Four. "Homegrown terrorists" stopped dead in their tracks, or victims of FBI entrapment? A panel of speakers will discuss these cases in light of the FBI's campaign since 9/11 that includes preemptive prosecution, the targeting of Muslim communities and the use of agent provocateurs and informants to entrap innocent people.

Panelists include:

El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan, Director of Operations for The Peace and Justice Foundation - a Muslim led grassroots human rights organization based in Metropolitan Washington, DC, and lead convener for the May 6, 2010, mass mobilization for political prisoner, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

Alicia Mc Williams, aunt of David Williams, one of the Newburgh Four, the men charged with the attempted bombing of the Riverdale Temple.

Lejla Duka, 12 year old family member of Fort Dix Five.

Faisal Hashmi, brother of Fahad Hashmi, who has been in pre-trial solitary confinement for over two years under the charges of providing material aid to Al-Qaeda

Lynne Jackson, a volunteer and one of the founders of Project Salam, an internet group that believes many innocent Muslims were targeted, prosecuted, and convicted in the hysteria following 9/11 and the Bush Administration’s violations of the US Constitution. The organization’s mission is to identify as many of these cases as possible, to advocate for their release, and to make sure that their names and the injustices against them are not forgotten.

Other family members and lawyers from these entrapment cases will be present.

Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild (NLG),Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA), Islamic Law Students Association (ILSA), Law Students for Human Rights (LSHR), WESPAC, Project SALAM, Muslim Solidarity Committee, NYU Law ACLU and Shuruq 2010

Thursday, March 25th - Tarab
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Kimmel E&L Auditorium
60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Its time for TARAB 2010!

Every year Arab Students United at NYU hosts it's biggest event of the year called Tarab. Tarab is a celebration of Arab culture through the arts.

Tarab 2010 will be hosted by:

~*~MARIA SHEHATA~*~
who has been featured on Comedy Central "The Watch List" and at the New York Underground Comedy Festival. For a full bio go to:
http://www.mariashehata.com/about.html

Special Acts include:

* Egyptian Folkloric dance with Yasser Darwish
* Saiidi Stick Dance
* Levantine Dabkeh
* Vocal performance by Omnia Hegazy
* And a performance by Zikrayat:
http://zikrayatmusic.com/

Dinner will be served!

Tickets can be purchased through NYU Ticket Central's Box Office: $5 NYU, $7 non-NYU

Sponsored by Arab Students United 

Friday, March 26th - The Hijabi Monologoues
7:30pm - 10:00pm
5 Washington Place Room 101
New York, NY 10003

Our stories. Our words.

Hijabi Monologues is about creating a space for American Muslim women to share their voices, a space to breathe as they are, a space that does not claim to tell every story and speak for every voice.

Prepare for the sharing of these stories to touch, connect with, and challenge you.
Through stories, we are humanized.

With performer May Alhassen

"The Big Apple" - the name itself gives an idea of the importance of food in the city. The business center of the world is also host to food from all over the world. From hamburgers to duck feet, New York has it all. Not only does it accommodate to every culture and ethnicity but also to every religion.

New York City is home to thousands of Muslims from every country, and with these Muslims came their unique style of food and cooking. We now are given an opportunity that is very unique and very rare in the world: to be able to try all of these foods without leaving the comfort of the NYU campus.

We will be catering food from different ethnic restaurants, but that are all Halal in order to promote unity and good eating. We hope to demonstrate how diverse and rich Islam is. We hope to show that through diversity, there is power.

Co-sponsored by the Restauranteer Club

Thursday, April 1st -TAKE ACTION NOW! Yesterday and Today, Silence and Inaction Enables Genocide
7:00pm - 10:00pm
NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts
60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Yesterday and Today, Silence and Inaction Enables Genocide.

SAVE LIVES, CREATE CHANGE and TAKE ACTION NOW
at the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts
this Thursday, April 1st at 7pm
and join 800 students and community members take a stand against genocide.

The event is FREE to the PUBLIC and will feature an opening address by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, philosopher and columnist, JOHN PRENDERGAST, former director of African Affairs at the National Security Council and founder of ENOUGH, an initiative to end genocide and war crimes against humanity, and MARK HANIS, founder of Genocide Intervention Network, an NGO founded to create public support for genocide prevention, intervention, and relief.

A little over nine months ago a group of students at New York University imagined an event that could reengage the subject of genocide prevention and provide substantive ways for students to take political and humanitarian action. Our model was designed to combat apathy by providing a space for understanding, discussion, and action.

With the leadership of the NYU Undergraduate Law Society and through the generous support and coordination of the Selma Ruben Distinguished Lecture Series and Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, we plan on planting the seeds of change here at New York University and elsewhere around the country.

Please visit www.takeactionnyu.com for more information.

Friday, April 2nd - Gender Roles: Islam vs. Culture
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012

This event will primarily focus on socially constructed gender roles and distinguishing the gender norms endemic to Islam with those prevalent in dominant cultures throughout the Muslim world and the United States. A part of the discussion will also focus on the implications that these differences manifest in society at large for both men and women.

Speakers:
*Dr. Sherman Jackson
*Professor Sumaiya Hamdani
*Professor Marion Katz
*Haroon Moghul

**Dr. Sherman Jackson: a native of Philadelphia, received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in Oriental Studies –Islamic Near East in 1990. Presently, he is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Visiting Professor of Law, and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan. From 1987-89, he served as Executive Director for the Center of Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Abd al-Hakim Jackson has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University and Wayne State University. In addition to numerous articles on Islamic law, theology and history, he is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (E.J. Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford, 2002) and, most recently, the controversial Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford, 2005).

Dr. Abd al-Hakim Jackson is co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a primary instructor at its programs, and a member of its Board of Trustees. Jackson is also a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Sharî‘ah Scholars’ Association of North America (SSANA) and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is a sought-after speaker and has lectured throughout the US and in numerous countries abroad.

**Professor Sumaiya Hamdani: is Associate Professor at George Mason University and founder and director of the Islamic Studies Program. She completed her B.A. in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, her M.A. at the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Princeton University. Hamdani has also taught Middle East, Islamic and Global history at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (1995-96). Hamdani has published in the field of medieval Islamic thought and law, and Muslim women’s history.

**Professor Marion Katz: is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. She recieved her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997. Her works include Body of Text, The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity, The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam, along with others. A project Professor Katz has worked on includes the juristic debate over women’s public worship.

**Haroon Moghul is Executive Director of The Maydan Institute. He served as Director of Public Relations at the Islamic Center at New York University (NYU) from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Moghul holds an M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. His fields of study include Muslim nationalism in South Asia, colonial and post-colonial Islamic politics and the development of the Indian Ocean economy. Mr. Moghul graduated from NYU in 2002 with a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy, and a minor in Arabic. He has also has studied Persian, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. He was nominated for the 2009 Presidential Award for Best Teaching by a Graduate Student at Columbia University.

Mr. Moghul’s sermons and lectures are included in the Islamic Center at NYU’s new media services, which average over 30,000 unique downloads per month from over 120 countries. His academic engagements include Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Moghul has been interviewed by or otherwise featured on CNN, al-Hurra, The History Channel, ABC-7, Voice of America, National Public Radio (NPR), UN Radio (Arabic), The New Yorker, TIME, the Guardian, and The National (Abu Dhabi).

Formerly contributing editor and end-page columnist for Islamica Magazine, Mr. Moghul maintains a popular blog, Avari, which won several Brass Crescent Awards, including wins for Best Muslim Blog, Best Thinker and Best Writing. His essays and articles have been published in a variety of international media, including Pakistan's Dawn and The Friday Times, as well as American media, including Tikkun and Religion Dispatches. He prepares policy reports and analyses for Tabah Foundation, an Abu-Dhabi based think-tank devoted to bridging Muslim tradition and contemporary Western politics and thought. Mr. Moghul’s first analytic brief, published in English and Arabic, considered the role of Muslim scholars in encouraging dialogue with the United States. His first novel, The Order of Light, was released by Penguin Global in 2006. A French translation, Comment j'ai échappé à l'Ordre de lumière, was published by Cherche Midi in 2007.

Haroon Moghul has been selected as one of over 500 global Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) and participated in the MLT Conference in Doha, Qatar (2009). Mr. Moghul will be presenting his research into the effects of new media at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia.

Saturday, April 3rd & 4th - A Commentary on Taj al'Arus
10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: TBA

Taj al 'Arus, the Crown of a bride, is a renowned classical text that describes why and how one should discipline one’s self or nafs, full of beautiful analogies encouraging the reader to be steadfast and heedful in disciplining the nafs. Join us as Dr. Sherman Jackson offers extensive commentary on this important text.

Admission: $20/person

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Monday, April 5th - Cultural Canvas: Islam Paints the World
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012

Wednesday April 7th  - Green Deen
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: TBA

Speaker: Ibrahim Abdul Matin

“Going Green” has become such a trend in the last few years it has permeated all areas of the American lifestyle. From sustainable architecture, to organic food, to newspapers and books going digital, our society on a whole has become more environmentally conscience. Our lecturers aim to make this an interactive event helping us to learn more about the impact we have on the environment, and coupled with some expert knowledge we hope to educate our community about the importance of conserving, preserving, and nurturing our earth.

 
Thursday, April 8th - Jhalak: A Night of Fashion and Flair
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor 
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012 

Join the Pakistani Students Association for their annual South Asian fashion show!

This year, Jhalak will be bigger and better than ever before!

Designs by the renowned Ghazala Asam
http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=659313992
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=100585676644027&ref=mf

Make-up/Hair by Singhar by Ayesha
http://www.singhar.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47405138304

Videography/Photography by Laaj Studios
http://www.laajstudios.com/

PROCEEDS TO CHARITY TBA SHORTLY!

Tickets:
$7 with NYU ID
$20 with government ID

NYU co-sponsors:
SHRUTI
Indian Cultural Exchange
Bengali Students Association
Shuruq Muslim Culture Theme week

Friday, April 9th - Young and Muslim in America
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012

Rather than a melting pot that makes us all homogeneous, we see New York City as a salad bowl mixing many cultures and religions. This mix includes Muslims from all over the world, each with unique experiences and a story to tell. From converts to native American-Muslims to immigrant American-Muslims each story offers insights into the depths of Islam in America.

In this event we invite the NYC community to come hear from Muslims with varied backgrounds who will share their individual, unique stories of being young and Muslim in America today.

Co-sponsors: The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Saturday, April 10th - Nowrooz 1389
7:30pm - 11:30pm
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Sq South , New York, NY 10012

Nowrooz (نوروز) is the traditional New Year in Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan, and in Pashtun territories of Pakstan (NWFP). The festival of Nowrooz is also celebrated in many other countries that were territories of or influenced by the Persian/Afghan Empires.

Come join the Afghan Students Association as we celebrate this millenia-old tradition 2010 style

* Full course Afghan Dinner with desserts and drinks
* Musical Performances
* Traditional Dance Performances

$7 NYU, $10 non-NYU