6th Floor, Herbert F. Johnson Museum
Free and open to the public
PANEL DISCUSSION AND FILM SCREENING:
ISLAM IN SPAIN: THE FINAL SOLUTION,
DIRECTED BY TARIQ ALI, 40 MIN.
Panelists:
Benedict Anderson, Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, Cornell University
Martin Bernal, Professor Emeritus of Government, Cornell University
Simone Pinet, Associate Professor, Spanish and Medieval Studies, Cornell University
Cynthia Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
Islam in Spain: The Final Solution examines the relationship between Spanish Christianity, Judaism and Islam in 10th to 15th century Spain. The writers Juan Goytisolo and Antonio Murez Molina discuss the cultural impact on Spain and ask whether “European” culture can be said to have an Arabic root.
Tariq Ali is one of the important critical thinkers of our time. He is also a novelist and filmmaker, and a long-time political activist. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages), as well as scripts for the stage and screen. Besides The Islam Quintet, the series of historical novels that has just been completed, his published works include TheClash of Fundamentalisms (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean (2008), The Nehrus and the Gandhis (2005), Protocols of the Elders of Sodom(2009), Conversations with Edward Said (2006), Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (2005), and The Obama Syndrome(2010). Tariq Ali lives in London and is an editor of New Left Review and director of its associated publishing house, Verso Books.
COSPONSORED BY:
THE HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART
AND CARL BECKER HOUSE
