SUMMARY

Topic: Islam, Africa, and the West: A Roundtable Discussion
Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South
Date: September 27, 2006
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Moderated by Prof. Michael Gomez, New York University

Confirmed Speakers:

• Ouseina Alidou, Africana Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
• Sulayman S. Nyang, African Studies, Howard University
• Asma Abdel Halim, Women's Studies, University of Toledo

Islam has a long and established presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, and has developed in distinctive ways in that region. At a time of growing complexity and tension in the relations between the West and Islam, what can be learned from the African adherents of Islam, their culture, their beliefs and their views?