Library Hosts Book Discussion Series: “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys”

April 14, 2014

The Zach S. Henderson Library has received a $3,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), to host a five-part reading and discussion series titled “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys.” The final book to be discussed is "Rumi: Poet and Mystic" by Reynold A. Nicholson. Discussion will be on Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Room 1300 at the Henderson Library. Anyone interested in the discussion is welcome. The library is one of 125 libraries and state humanities councils across the country selected to participate in the project, which seeks to familiarize public audiences in the United States with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world. The Muslim Journeys theme that the Zach S. Henderson Library has chosen to explore is “Pathways of Faith.” “We are delighted to have been chosen to host this unique series that will allow members of both the campus community and the larger Statesboro community a chance to discuss important themes in Muslim history and literature, with the help of two well-qualified scholars, professors Hemchand Gossai and John Parcels,” said Ann Hamilton, associate dean of the Library. Selected with the advice of librarians and cultural programming experts, as well as distinguished scholars in the fields of anthropology, world history, religious studies, interfaith dialogue, the history of art and architecture, world literature, Middle East studies, Southeast Asian studies, African studies and Islamic studies, the books are part of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. The Zach S. Henderson Library was one of 842 libraries chosen to receive the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. For more information, visit the Zach S. Henderson Library website.  About Bridging Cultures Bookshelf The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf is a project of NEH, conducted in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts. The Averitt Center for the Arts and the Statesboro Regional Library were community partners with the Zach S. Henderson Library in applying for both the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf and the “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys” awards.