October 25, 2009 5:30 PM
Film Screening and Discussion: Journey into America
What does it mean to be a Muslim in post-9/11 America? In September 2008, Muslim scholar and former Pakistani ambassador Akbar Ahmed, along with a team of student researchers from American University, set out to discover just that. In the course of seven months, Ahmed’s team visited over 70 U.S. cities and more than 100 mosques, interviewing thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims alike. They found that, in many ways, the U.S. Muslim and American identities are inseparable, despite their complexity. This film documents the team’s remarkable journey in search of a pluralistic America. Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam will appear in book form from Brookings Press in 2009.