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Posts tagged as “Religion”

Writing Between Tongues: An Exploration of Hebrew and Arabic Calligraphy

In this interactive session and virtual gallery tour, we will dive into the rich visual worlds of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy. Through historical, spiritual, linguistic and artistic lenses, we will discover the parallels between both languages. Educator, community organizer, and artist Ruben Shimonov will take us on an exploratory journey of his multilingual calligraphy and the ways he has used…

Challenging “The Imam of Atheism”: Islamist Anti-Communism and the Soviet Union, 1958-1979

Between the Soviet Union’s outreach to countries like Egypt and Afghanistan in the mid-1950s and the growing role of Communists in Iraq following that country’s 1958 revolution, Muslim intellectuals and ulema feared the expansion of Communism in the Middle East. They began to conceive of Islam as a distinct ideological system and alternative to capitalism and socialism, and they looked…

Christ, Hadji Murat, and the Late Tolstoy’s Non-Hegemonic Masculinities

Join us for another 19v seminar! In this lecture, Professor Ani Kokobobo traces a new minority masculinity in Tolstoy’s late narratives after the author denounces sexuality in works like The Kreutzer Sonata. If typical Tolstoyan “seeker” characters, like Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Konstantin Levin were always social misfits who did not fit within societal roles and sought a sphere…

Stradella’s “Ester, Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo”

at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Please note: This event will take place at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Members of Casa Italiana will receive a special code via E-mail for free admission Salon Sanctuary Concerts presents Ester, Liberatrice del popolo ebreo Alessandro Stradella (1639 – 1682)​ With Gould, Pillow, Lemos, Pomerantz, An​ The Old Testament…