Phase I of the Muslim Musical Mosaic Project is Here!
For many years now I have been wanting to create a celebrative musical event, something that reflects our progressive and inclusive values, and something that can be produced as an Eid event. The first step to fulfilling that vision is to anchor it in our musical history, the music the enslaved Muslims brought to America, gnawa, which then led to blues, country and jazz.
Phase I of the Muslim Musical Mosaic: MPV will be putting on a “live” event, a hybrid of a panel discussion of that history and musical performances to illustrate it, but, with a twist!
Speakers and performers:
Professor Mark Levine (University of California, Irvine), Lu Fuki, Alfred Madian, Farah Mitha, Tazeen Ayub, Aiman Khan, and Ani Zonneveld
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org for more information.
Additional funding from generous MPV donors. We love you! To add your support to the project, we invite you to make a donation here.
On May 20th, MPV is teaming up with women-led synagogues in hosting the Parent’s Circle, Palestinian and Israeli parents who have lost a child/ren to the conflict. Please see the details below.
To catch up, last month I was interviewed by the Unreasonable podcast. Please check out the long form interview here. I also spoke at Americans United for the Separation of Religion and State annual Religious Freedom Summit. My presentation was titled “When the Religious Right Come Together”, where I presented evidence of the Muslim Right’s partnership with the Christian Right around LGBTQIA+ issues.
On May 14, I will be presenting a paper of our initiative #ImamsForShe at the Global Women Rights in Islam Conference In Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The conference is co-organized by Muhammadiyah Society, Faith to Action Network and al-Azhar University, which will also publish the papers presented. I am super excited about this as our work is catching on in the conservative circles.
Onward and upward…
Ani Zonneveld
President & Founder