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• King of Morocco Attends Lecture By Duke Professor Ebrahim Moosa
  , 2007/11/14 10:27:15

  Professors routinely travel to other locales to deliver speeches, but Ebrahim Moosa’s recent trip to Morocco was far from the ordinary.

  This week, Moosa delivered a lecture, “Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Islamic Thought,” that was hosted by His Majesty King Muhammad VI of Morocco and was held in the renovated Qarawiyin Mosque in the historic city of Fez. Attending the lecture, which came during the holy month of Ramadan, were the king, a royal entourage, scores of diplomats, Moroccan government representatives, ministers and senior representatives of the armed forces, among others. To read more about Professor Moosa's speech and visit to Morocco, please visit http://news.duke.edu/2007/10/moosa._print.ht or http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2007/10/17/

  News/Prof-Lectures.To.Moroccan.Monarch-3037695.shtml you can also view the lecture at one of these urls http://files.habous.gov.ma/wmv/causerie7_1428.wmv

  or http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4403107441042617579

   

• Moosa Receives Grant From National Institute of Justice
  Ryn Nasser, 2007/09/04 15:34:35

  Ebrahim Moosa, DISC Research Director and associate professor in the Duke University Department of Religion, is one of three local scholars who have received a $394,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice for a two-year study of how American Muslim communities respond to radical Islamic movements.  

• DukeEngage Students Makes News in Yemen
  , 2007/11/14 10:23:42

  Duke University students Andrew Simon, Isabelle Figaro, Taimoor Aziz, Tyler Huffman, and Ella Lipin spent the summer in Sana’a, Yemen as part of a DukeEngage pilot program. These students developed an interest in spending the summer in a majority-Muslim country through Arabic language study and participation in the “Muslim Cultures” Focus cluster in spring 2007. While in Yemen, the students worked in NGOs, where they explored social justice and policy issues. They You can read more about their summer activities in their blog at http://dukeengage2007yemen.blogspot.com/. In July, the students made national news in Yemen for a soccer tournament they organized as a vehicle for educating children about their rights.