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Chautauqua-by-the-Sea Symposium Discusses Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval Islamic Spain

June 23, 2004

The Ocean Park Chautauqua-by-the-Sea celebrates its 124th season with a symposium, "Islam in the West: Past, Present and Future," from 7-9 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, in Jordan Hall on the grounds of Ocean Park.

Ross Brann, the Alice Cook House Professor and Dean, Cornell University, will discuss "Muslims, Christians and Jews in Al-Andalus (Medieval Islamic Spain)", followed by an interreligious panel discussion that includes Rabbi David Gordis, president of Hebrew College, Newton, Mass., and Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Center of New England. The panel will be chaired by Abraham Peck, director of the Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Admission is $6 per person and tickets will be available at the door. For more information, call 934-9068 or see www.oceanpark.org. The symposium is cosponsored by USM's Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, and the Ocean Park Association.

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