The Pluralism Project at Harvard UniversityNew Muslim Cool, October 10, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Sackler Museum, Harvard University
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
5-6 PM: Sacred Spaces special exhibit and reception.
6-8 PM: Screening of New Muslim Cool and Q&A with Hamza Pérez.
Please join us on October 10 for a screening of New Muslim Cool, a documentary film by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. New Muslim Cool features Hamza Pérez – a rapper, a father, a prison chaplain, a Muslim. Hamza Pérez will participate in Q&A after the screening.
Before the screening, the Sackler Museum will offer extended hours (until 6PM) for the special exhibit Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis. Sacred Spaces is on view August 6, 2009–January 3, 2010 at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
Admission to the screening is free. Admission to the exhibit from 5-6 PM on October 10 is free.
Event poster available for download here.
Co-sponsors:
- The Harvard Foundation
- Active Voice
- The Center for the Study of World Religions
- Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
- Harvard Art Museum
- The Harvard Islamic Society
- The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University
- The Islam in the West Program
- The Muslim American Society of Boston
- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
- The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
- The Outreach Center for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
For more information, please contact Erin Loeb at the Pluralism Project: or 617-496-2481.