Monday, October 22, 2007
Moderate guests. Yesterday (via email from the MAS/Islamic Society of Boston list -- ISB and ICB are not the same thing, though both have MAS connections):
Conversations - Current Affairs
A Report from Palestine
by Professor Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
ASMK,
On Sunday, October 21st 2007, we will be hosting a distinguished guest, Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, as a presenter in the Current Affairs series of our weekly Conversations program. Dr. Sway is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies, and Director of the Islamic Research Center at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His presentation will include a review of the current situation in the occupied territories and an analysis of the multifaceted struggles that the Palestinians are dealing with at the moment and their impact on the future of the Middle East.
A question and answer session will follow the presentation. The session will be held in center's prayer hall starting at 11:15 AM and concluding by 12:45 PM, insha'allah...
I wrote previously about Abu Sway, former President of the Islamic Society of Boston from 1990 -1992, here: Naim Ateek Shares Stage with Man Who wishes Israel 'Would Disappear' -- a former ISB President:
Daniel Pipes maintains a page of links on Abu Sway here: Mustafa Abu-Sway, Islamist. In a 2003 entry, Pipes wrote:
In "Fulbright's Terrorist Tie," Asaf Romirowsky and I recently broke the news that Mustafa Abu-Sway, a professor teaching at Florida Atlantic University courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, also happens to be "known as an activist" in Hamas, a group on the U.S. government's terrorism list...
