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Speaker: Prof. Edward E. Curtis, IV (Indiana University)
Location: TH204 (Turcotte Hall, University of Lethbridge)
Time: 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
This presentation charts the long history of Muslims in North America, revealing the role of our American Muslim ancestors in the making of the United States and Canada. It is a story of our neighbors, like the Syrian and Lebanese Muslim settlers who came to Alberta during the "Wheat Boom" from 1896 to 1914, and of American cousins, some of whom became national celebrities in the United States before the U.S. Civil War. It is the tale of unknown Bengali sailors who lived on Congo Square in turn-of-the-century New Orleans and of some of the most famous figures of the twentieth century such as the boxer Muhammad Ali. Though the current Muslim populations of both the United States and Canada boast large numbers of first-generation immigrants, they are but the latest additions to a population that has always contributed to our shared cultures, politics, and societies
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1894 | uleth.ca/artsci/event/63180