Contemporary Issues in Islam - Lifelong Learning Program

Day: Mondays

Dates: October 28 – December 2, 2024

Time: 9:30am-11:30am

Location: Carleton University

Price: $150+HST

Parking Info & Room Number will be sent by email 1-2 days prior to the lecture date

Overview

This course is an opportunity to explore complex themes around Islam that we often hear or read about in the media but rarely understand in depth. The perspectives will be focused on concrete geopolitical examples from the Muslim world and other countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, France, Canada and the United States of America.

Topics

Week 1: Introduction about Islam

Week 2: Shia and Sunnism: religious or political schism

Week 3: Democracy and Islam.

Week 4: Islamophobia or Freedom of Expression.

Week 5: Terrorism, National Security and Islam.

Week 6: Influential women in Islam.

About the Lecturer

Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels, an essay and a collection of short stories, celebrated by the critique.

Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction.

Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton University at the Department of English and Literature.

Her new memoir/essay, “Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f)”, has been a finalist for the Governor General literary award in the non-fiction category for 2023.

Monia has published several articles with the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and regularly contributes to Islamic Horizons.

Policies: Please review the Lifelong Learning Policies

2024 Fall - IslamO

If you have a credit with LLeaP please proceed with registering for this series. Upon completion of your registration email lifelonglearning@cunet.carleton.ca to inform us of your credit. We will process a refund in the amount of the credit to your original form of payment.

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