New Resource
The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) has expanded and enhanced its Muslim and Jewish religious text resources. CMJE has compiled an online resource center including an adapted compendium of fully searchable Islamic religious texts alongside Jewish religious texts.
Each religious text has several translations in order to facilitate scholarly study, debate, and religious text study on a variety of topics. We will continue to expand this compendium in order to provide a user-friendly resource for scholarship and general educational purposes.
To explore our new resource Click Here
Muslim-Jewish Film Festival
To download the flier for the Film Series(.pdf) use the preceding link.
The film series continues with "The Other"
How do Muslim and Jewish filmmakers represent “The Other?”
SALATA BALADI
THE BAND’S VISIT (Israel 2007)
Wednesday February 3rd 2010 7:00p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium. Click here for a campus map
Award-winning, Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel’s heritage is a complex blend of religions and cultures. Her mother is a half Jewish, half Italian Christian who converted to Islam when she married Nadia’s half Turkish, half Ukrainian father. Prompted by the realization that her 10-year-old nephew Nabeel is growing up in an Egyptian society where talk of culture clashes is all too common, she decides to let her mother Mary Rosenthal share their diverse family history.
“The original inspiration for this film was simple enough,” says Kamel, “a love for my family’s stories and a wish to share them. It was a storytelling project.”
Wednesday February 17th 2010 7:00p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium. Click here for a campus map
When an Egyptian police brass band travels to Israel to play at the opening of an Arab arts center, they wind up abandoned and lost in a remote desert town in this charming cross-cultural comedy. Defying expectations, the tiny Israeli community embraces the musicians, and both the Egyptians and the locals learn a few things about one another, and themselves, in this witty winner of the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard prize.
Co-Sponsored by: The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, USC Office of Religious Life, NewGround: Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, Middle East Studies Program, USC Hillel and the USC Muslim Student Union
