The Dialogue & Dignity Series includes speakers, workshops, and conversations aimed at building appreciation for discussion that includes different points of view for the development of understanding and good solutions to our most pressing issues.

Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. in Olin Auditorium for a public talk by guest speaker Zareena Grewall, titled “Reading Muslims: Race, Islam and the War on Terror.”

Zareena Grewal is a historical anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker whose research focuses on race, gender, religion, nationalism and transnationalism across a wide spectrum of American Muslim communities. Her first book, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority,” won several writing awards, including the prestigious Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Grewal is also an Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, Middle East Studies, and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, where she teaches courses about documentary film, U.S. cultural and political interests in the Middle East and South Asia, Islam in the United States and global debates about the reform of Islam.