Lecture: How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women

NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 19 Washington Square North, New York

How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women: Nearly half of Muslim Americans never attend the mosque and have very few Muslim friends. How and why does “unmosquing” happen and to whom? Eman Abdelhadi traces second-generation immigrants’ engagement with Muslim communities using life history interviews and presents four trajectories that emerge from these data. Abdelhadi finds that while most Muslim…

Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

The history and culture of Sephardic Jewry can be found in the rich repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs. These folksongs reflect on Jewish traditions and stories as well as universal human themes such as love, death, and despair. In the 20th and 21st century Western classical composers such as Alberto Hemsi, Yehezkel Braun, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Joaquin Rodrigo, Wolf Simoni (Louis…

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