Join us at 4 p.m. today at Georgetown/On Faith's symposium on "What it Means to be Muslim in America.

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:

-- 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.

-- Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University.

-- Hadia Mubarak, senior researcher at Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

-- Lisa Miller, Newsweek's Society editor since 2000, former religion reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and an "On Faith" panelist.

-- Sally Quinn of the Washington Post and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, both co-moderators of On Faith.