A Reverence for Words: Understanding Muslim Cultures through Poetry & Song

FAIN: ES-50538-13

City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture (New York, NY 10003-9345)
Amanda Dargan (Project Director: March 2013 to May 2015)

A two-week institute for thirty school teachers on Islamic poetry.

City Lore, in collaboration with Poets House, the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, the Asia Society, and Teachers and Writers Collaborative requests funding for a two week NEH Summer Scholars Institute for high school teachers. Understanding Muslim Cultures through the Arts: Exploring the Written, Spoken, Sung and Illuminated Word will examine the high regard for poetry and its relationship to music and the art of the book in the cultures of the Islamic world, both historically and in contemporary society. The institute draws on the arts from the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and West Africa to give teachers a way of teaching about and deepening their understanding of Muslim Cultures.