Student Highlight: Cimone Firdaus Rajan
We talk to dual-degree MA candidate Cimone about her studies, her recently released debut EP/album, “after the rain,” and her plans for the future.
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CSMS Remembers Etel Adnan (1925-2021)
Etel Adnan, “Untitled” (2014). Courtesy: Etel Adnan and Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris
Throughout her six-decade career as an author, poet and artist, Etel Adnan became known for her creative vision and sharp intellectual insights into our complex world. Politically and artistically, she engaged with struggles in the Middle East and beyond while transcending all borders through the nature of her art. Her vital work will continue to inform and illuminate our programs at CSMS.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/obituaries/etel-adnan-dead.amp.html
http://www.eteladnan.com/
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/etel-adnan-lights-new-measure
Student Highlight: Yusuf Umrethwala
Read about Yusuf Umrethwala, an MA candidate for the Columbia and Aga Khan University dual degree in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures.
Read More(10/22) Adab Colloquium: Proto-Secular Spaces? Mapping Infidelity in the Poetry of ʿAṭṭār
Join us for this Adab colloquium with Dr. Cyrus Ali Zargar, Distinguished Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Central Florida, and discussant Dr. Ali Altaf Mian, Assistant Professor of Religion and Izzat Hasan Sheikh Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Florida, on "Sober in Mecca, Drunk in Byzantium: Antinomian Space in the Poetry of ʿAṭṭār.”