Ingrid Mattson on Speaking of Faith

Ingrid Mattson and Geneive Abdo will deliver the next public address in the Humanities Council’s Shifting Ground: Religion and Civic Life in America project on Wednesday, April 30 at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s School in Concord. The event is presented in partnership with St. Paul’s School and is open to the public free of charge.

Mattson and Abdo will discuss Islam in America. Mattson is the first female and the first convert to Islam to lead the Islamic Society of North America. She is the Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and a Professor at the MacDonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut and the author of The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life. She became an internationally-sought resource on the experiences of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.

Mattson was recently Krista Tippett's guest on NPR's Speaking of Faith. Listen here.

Read Mattson's essay on Finding the Prophet in His People.

Abdo is the author of Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11. Her 20-year career in journalism centered on coverage of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Abdo was the Iran correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian, and a regular contributor to The Economist.

For more information on this event or the Shifting Ground project, visit the Humanities Council’s website or call 224-4071.