Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
Justice for All: In her efforts to break down barriers between people, Adrien Wing will talk to anyone. She's invited former gang members to campus and forced her students to examine issues they'd rather avoid. -- Writers' Block: Fill in the blanks...
Fadhil Thamir considers justice "part of our aspiration to discover truth and freedom," tackling the panel topic by asking whether we can "make a dream true?" Ken Bugul also considers justice to be an idea better fit for imagination than reality,...
IN CLASS: Engineering students help equip humans for flight. -- The Flight of a Red-Tailed Angel: As one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, Iowa alumnus Luther Smith played a crucial part in World War II— and also helped wage the battle for racial...
Julie Englander hosts the reading. Christopher Merrill introduces the Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai. Shabtai reads selected poems, some of which come from his publications J'Accuse and Ziva, Zmora Bitan. His poems deal with the social and political...
A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
IN CLASS Marketing students add real-life boardroom experience to their resumes. -- Mercury Rising: Unsettled by escalating global temperatures and worldwide pollution, UI student activists campaign for environmental responsibility right here at...
Cathy Sultan, author of the acclaimed memoir "Beirut Heart," reads from "Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides."
Sultan, who sits on the executive board of The National Peace Foundation, flew to Israel-Palestine to interview...
Provocative and controversial Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai reads from his work J'accuse in which he takes on Zionism and its seemingly endless struggle with the Palestinians.