What does it mean to be Muslim in America?
Is the answer political? Social? Cultural? Spiritual?
On Faith is going to ask some experts at a symposium Thursday afternoon at Georgetown University.
What questions do you have?
We'll take time during the 90-minute symposium to ask the panel some of your questions.
You can email them now or during the discussion. I'll be blogging the discussion live.
The Georgetown/On Faith event will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. April 19 at Georgetown University's Copley Hall Formal Lounge.
The discussion is free and open to the public. On-campus parking is available. Georgetown University's front gates are at the corner of 37th and O streets in the Georgetown section of Washington DC.
The symposium will be moderated by On Faith panelist Dr. John L. Esposito, Georgetown University professor of religion and founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
He will lead a discussion that includes five other On Faith panelists:
-- Salman Ahmad, a Pakistani-born rock star who started the wildly popular South Asian band known as Junoon.
-- Dr. Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian convert, a professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford (Conn.) Seminary, and the first woman to be president of the Islamic Society of North America.
-- Dr. Sherman Jackson, a native of Philadelphia, and professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan.
-- Sally Quinn of the Washington Post and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, both co-moderators of On Faith.
The symposium also will include two other panelists:
-- Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University.
-- Hadia Mubarak, senior researcher at Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
To obtain press credentials for the event, or to schedule an interview with the symposium panelists, email WPNI's Donna Sawyer or call her at (703) 469-2965, or call Georgetown's Jacques Arsenault at 202 687-4328.
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