Muslim American Journeys Listening Event
This public listening event showcased narratives from the American Folklife Center's StoryCorps collection that illustrate the diversity of Muslim-American cultural identity. The event combined collective listening to story segments from the Muslim-American Leadership Allilance collection, short audience engagement activities facilitated by a panel and a short presentation on folklife resources for ethnographic fieldwork. Speaker Biography: Zabi Rahat is a Muslim-American Leadership Allilance contributor to the StoryCorps Muslim American Journeys project. Speaker Biography: Supna Zaidi is a Muslim-American Leadership Allilance contributor to the StoryCorps Muslim American Journeys project. Speaker Biography: Ahmed Salim is a Muslim-American Leadership Allilance contributor to the StoryCorps Muslim American Journeys project. Speaker Biography: Zainab Khan is board chair and co-founder of the Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA), coordinator of the Muslim American Journeys project with StoryCorps, and a therapist, painter and human rights advocate. Speaker Biography: Tamara Thompson is manager of archiving for StoryCorps. Speaker Biography: Julia Kim is digital assets manager for the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Stephen Winick is a writer and editor for the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8220
