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For release May 12, 2011
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Kambiz GhaneaBassiri |
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri lectures at LCC May 19
EUGENE, OR - Kambiz GhaneaBassiri will lecture at Lane Community College on Thursday, May 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the Center for Meeting and Learning, Room 104, main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene. His address is titled, "American Muslims and the American Body Politic."
GhaneaBassiri is an associate professor of religion and humanities at Reed College. His lecture will review the controversy that arose last year around a proposed Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. While Muslim belonging remains politically in question today, historically American Muslims have been active participants in American society for many decades, GhaneaBassiri says. His lecture traces the history of American Muslim community and institution building in the past three decades to demonstrate the shortcoming of the contemporary political discourse on American Muslims, which has focused on the nature of Islam and its relation to American interests at the expense of Muslims' actual historical experiences in the United States.
GhaneaBassiri received his bachelor's degree in religious studies from Claremont McKenna College (1994) and completed his master's and doctoral degrees in Islamic studies in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University (2003). During 2006-07, he served as the interim director of academic affairs at Dar Al Hadith Al Hassania, a prestigious, state-sponsored Islamic seminary in Rabat, Morocco. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2006 for his recent book, "A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order:" (Cambridge University Press, 2010). In addition to his work on the history of Islam in America, GhaneaBassiri specializes in classical and modern Islamic intellectual and social history in the Middle East.
His lecture is the third in the Visiting Scholars on Islam series developed by Lane in collaboration with the University of Oregon. The series is free and open to the community.
For disability accommodations, contact Disability Resources at (541) 463-5150 or (541) 463-3079 (TTY). Lane is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
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