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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

New Muslim Cool

Screening

Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Hamza Pérez will be on hand to answer questions about the film New Muslim Cool, which is based on his life experiences as a Puerto Rican-American, rapper, former drug dealer, family man, and spiritual leader. The film has been selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

Before the screening, the Sackler Museum will offer extended hours (until 6:00pm) for the special installation Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, which is on view in the Islamic and later Indian gallery through January 3, 2010.

Free admission. Admission to the installation from 5:00-6:00pm is free.

Co-sponsored by the Pluralism Project, the Harvard Art Museum, and Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries with: The Center for the Study of World Religions, the Harvard Islamic Society, the Hiphop Archive at Harvard University, the Islam in the West Program, the Muslim American Society of Boston, the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.