Nabil Matar on "Shared Cultural Spaces"

Professor of English Nabil Matar describes the upcoming international conference he is organizing, Shared Cultural Spaces: Islam and the West in the Arts and Sciences, on campus February 24 through 26. Matar received a $170,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the conference, which will "explore ways that Muslim contributions to literature, science, art, and architecture have influenced and helped build the foundation for those disciplines in the West."