"Glories of Islamic Art" Movie Screening with Akbar Ahmed

Thursday, March 1, 2007

This event featured short clips from the film Glories of Islamic Art. Through this documentary, leading Muslim scholar Akbar Ahmed took the audience on a journey of discovery, highlighting the beauty and sophistication of Islamic art and architecture. The film also portrayed the worldwide diversity of Islamic art and its influence on modern artistic expression. This screening provided Ambassador Ahmed with valuable feedback from the audience, since at the time the series had not yet been released in the United States.

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Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in American University's School of International Service and a trustee for the World Faiths Development Dialogue. Ahmed belonged to Pakistan's senior civil service and was Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Ahmed is a member of the Washington Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council and is a member of the International Advisory Board for The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Ahmed consistently writes for a number of popular news publications around the globe, including a weekly column in the Daily Times, a leading English-language Pakistani newspaper.

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