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SUMMARY:Facing the Past, Facing the Future: The Alhambra and the Neo-Islamic Culture of the 21st Century
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 In 2003 a new mosque was inaugurated in Granada, 
 Spain overcoming belligerent opposition.  
 At issue was the meaning of the mosque within 
 the contexts of local, regional, national and 
 global history, religion and politics.  Constructed 
 at the summit of the Albayzín hill, 
 the new mosque faces the Alhambra, the palatial 
 city built by the last Muslim dynasty between 
 1232-1492, and today the most-visited monument 
 in Spain.  The new mosque became the focal 
 point of entangled gazes, all embedded in 
 pre-existing historical, political and cultural 
 narratives centering on the Alhambra, which 
 were mobilized, accommodated, or contested 
 by the building's architectural design.\n
 Olga 
 Bush is a scholar of Islamic art and architecture. 
 She has taught at Vassar and SUNY-New 
 Paltz, held fellowships at the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art and the Kunsthistorisches Institut 
 in Florence. Dr. Bush recently co-edited 
 a volume of essays entitled Gazing Otherwise: 
 Modalities of Seeing in and beyond the Lands 
 of Islam (Brill, in press, 2015).\n
 In collaboration 
 with: MSU Muslim Studies Program; James 
 Madison College; Department of Art, Art History, 
 and Design; Arab Cultural Society; Arabic 
 Flagship Program.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Deb Margolis\n
 Contact email: deborahm@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:North Conference Room (W449), MSU Main Library
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