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MEDIA CONTACT: Nancy Rosen
954-236-1056, nrosen@fau.edu
FAU Institute Hosts Imam Khaleel Mohammed to Lecture on Claims that Palestine Belongs to the Jews
BOCA RATON, FL (March 21, 2005) - Florida Atlantic University will host Dr. Imam Khaleel Mohammed who will lecture on "Islam's Jihad (struggle): Modernity, Extremism, Anti-Zionism, and Human Rights." The address looks at claims that Palestine belongs to the Jews. The lecture is on Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in General Classroom North, Room 101 on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. (Park in Lot 5 on the North Side of Lee Street) The lecture is free to students who present a current student ID and $10 at the door for non-students. Sponsorship for the lecture is through the Florida-Israel Institute, a joint project of FAU and Broward Community College.
Mohammed is an imam and one of the few Islamic scholars who is accepted by adherents of both the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam. He has lectured to groups in the U.S and abroad and has published numerous journal articles. Mohammed has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Government of Quebec, Canada and as an expert witness in San Diego. He is a speaker with the United Jewish Communities and the Brandeis University National Women's Committee. Mohammed currently serves as an advisory board member to the Free Muslims Against Terrorism organization.
Mohammed is a professor of religion at San Diego State University and a core faculty member of the university's Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies. He was born in Guyana, South America and is now a citizen of Canada. Mohammed studied in Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Syria and Yemen, at both traditional Islamic institutions and Western universities. He received a scholarship from the Saudi government and studied Islamic law at Kulliyat al-Shariah, Imam Muhammad bin Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed has a bachelor's degree in religion and psychology (Mexico), completed an M.A. in religion (Judaism and Islam) from Concordia University and earned his Ph.D. (Islamic law) at McGill, with an FCAR (Fonds pour les chercheurs et aide a la recherché) fellowship from the Government of Quebec. He was the first Kraft-Hiatt postdoctoral fellow in Islamic Studies at Brandeis University. Mohammed researched the image of the Jew in the Hadith literature during his two-year fellowship at Brandeis.
For more information contact the Florida-Israel Institute at 954-236-1056 or floridaisrael@fau.edu.
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