Event Sponsors
Keynote: Samer Abboud
"Creative Confrontation with Islamophobia"
Dr. Samer Abboud is Associate Professor Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University. He is the author of Syria (Polity Press, 2018). His area of interest centers around Syria; Lebanon; Middle East; Political Economy; Critical Security Studies. Authored several books including Syria, Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies, Critical Studies on Security, Social Change, Network Formation and Syria’s War Economies, Middle East Policy.
Performance: Mariam Rajput | “Islamic Art and Arabic Calligraphy”
Influenced by her American and Pakistani roots, Award Winning Artist and Arabic Calligraphist, Mariam Rajput, has a passionate interest in the art of the Islamic World. Rajput's work is a culmination of abstract, modernistic painting techniques and the ancient arts of Islamic Illumination, arabesque patterns, calligraphy and sacred geometry.
Rajput is a Graduate of Stockton University with a degree in Psychology and a Masters in Applied Behavior Analysis with a Minor In Clinical Psychology. Her perception of Art incorporates a dynamic message meant to span across diverse cultural backgrounds and levels of perceptive thought. In recognition of her positive influence on her community and philanthropic efforts, Rajput was recently awarded the Women's Empowerment Award from Woman UP! in Philadelphia in 2018.
"We are committed to presenting a festival whose performers and organizers are as racially and ethnically diverse as the great metropolis they call home. And as a consequence of this goal of diversity, all events at the Festival will be available without tickets, so that all who visit one of the many Festival venues can do so for free."
We firmly believe this festival can make a positive impact on interfaith understanding, especially in a region founded upon the creed of religious tolerance. By celebrating our cultural differences, the festival challenges the purveyors of bigotry and hate, and seeks to strengthen the bonds between different communities of faith by fostering mutual understanding across religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Your sponsorship will demonstrate your commitment to these ideals. Your support will make this festival and all the events associated with it free-of-charge and open to the public.
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