The Scripting of Time
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
Classical KUSC Radio
Filling the airwaves with music and arts programming, KUSC is the largest nonprofit classical station in the country.
Twenty-four hours a day at 91.5 FM
Filling the airwaves with music and arts programming, KUSC is the largest nonprofit classical station in the country.
Twenty-four hours a day at 91.5 FM
CALTECH
Islam and Nationalism
The College Commons: Transnational Charisma and Traveling Spirits
USC College's Laurie Brand and other Middle East scholars explore the meanings of charisma and liberation in the Muslim world.
The Arabic word for charisma, baraka (the source of our president's name), refers to a god-given power to lead people on a holy struggle for liberation. While Islamic liberation has reached the West primarily as a war against "American imperialism," it is also present in such disparate practices as Sufi dances and whirling dervishes, the spiritual quest for transcendence.
Sumaya Abubaker
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