Film, Video The Druze Heritage: Part II
Event video
Share
Transcript:
TEXT
About this Item
Title
- The Druze Heritage: Part II
Summary
- The Druze are a thousand-year-old religious community of the Middle East, whose members today live primarily in Lebanon, Syria and Israel, while others have emigrated to the United States, Europe and Africa. Their historical and intellectual legacy was examined by 10 scholars from the U.S. and Middle East who participated in a symposium at the Library of Congress. The event was sponsored by the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division, the John Kluge Center in the Library of Congress and the American Druze Foundation. During the symposium, selected items from the Library's holdings by and about the Druze were on display in Room LJ-113. Scholars participating in the symposium included Sami Makarem, American University of Beirut; Majid Fakhri, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University; Abbas Hamdani, Wisconsin University; Linda Clarke, Concordia University; Melhem Salman, American Druze Foundation; Sumaiya Hamdani, George Mason University; Erlendur Haraldsson, University of Iceland; Intisar Azzam, Lebanese American University in Beirut; Kais M. Firro, Haifa University; and Dr. Anis Obeid, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University. Haraldsson will deliver a luncheon speech titled "Reincarnation, Ancient Beliefs and New Evidence Among the Druze."
Names
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body
- John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-02-07.
Headings
- - Biography, History
- - Education
- - Religion
- - Culture, Folklife
Notes
- - Group name: The Druze Heritage Symposium.
- - Classification: Education.
- - Classification: General Works.
- - Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
- - Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
- - Various.
- - Recorded on 2008-02-07.
- - Researchers.
- - Teachers.
Medium
- 1 online resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021688154
Online Format
- video
- image
- online text
LCCN Permalink
Additional Metadata Formats
Part of
Format
Contributor
- John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division