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...class’s professor, Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Program Ali S. Asani ’77, said that creating this course would have been impossible without the freedom granted by the Program in General Education, which encourages creative assignments and interdisciplinary learning...
Islamic culture is most commonly studied through a social or political lens, Asani said, both of which are premised on the idea of Islam as “the other...
...think this approach, through the arts, is a very effective way of humanizing Muslim experiences,” Asani said...
...Asani has been designing the course for nearly a decade, but he said when he presented it under the Core seven or eight years ago it was rejected twice...
...representations of Muslims have been so negative,” Asani says. “How de we counteract Islamaphobia? I am a firm believer that one way in which people can understand each other is through the arts...