CIS News: October 2015

The Center for Islamic Studies is delighted to share that CIS visiting scholar Dr. Nargis Virani; CIS lecturer, and Dr. Som Pourfarzaneh will be attending the Parliament of the Worlds Religions fostering collaborations on Muslim leadership. Oct 15-19, 2015, Salt Lake City.

The Center for Islamic Studies is pleased to be a continued co-sponsor of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation project, directed by Dr. Hatem Bazian at the Center for Race and Gender at UCB.

CIS is pleased to announce that Islamic Art Historian and CIS Visiting Scholar, Carol Bier, will be giving a gallery talk and tour of the exhibit "Woven Luxuries: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Velvets from the Indictor Collection," at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Thursday, October 15, 11am-2pm.