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24 Thursday / January 24, 2013

IU Cinema Presents: ‘A Jihad For Love’

06:30 pm
IU Cinema (1213 E. 7th Street)
http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. “A Jihad for Love” looks beyond a war-torn present to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘strive in the path of God’ – allowing its subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war. (HD Cam presentation)

Director Parvez Sharma is scheduled to be present.

The screening is sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program, Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services (GLBTSSS), The Kinsey Institute, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Wafa Amayreh.

Parvez Sharma is a Muslim gay filmmaker born and raised in India. He has degrees in English Literature, Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism, and Film and Video Production. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for Asia’s premier news network and a print journalist for several prominent Indian newspapers. As an activist, he was instrumental in setting up the first organized LGBT effort in West Bengal and speaks internationally on issues crucial to LGBT communities in a Muslim context.

Cost: Free (tickets required - pick up tickets 30 minutes before film, or at IU Auditorium during normal hours)

For more information contact:

(812)855-7632
[email protected]

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