Islam lecture CANCELED

**** Lecture Canceled ****

Paul Barrett, a noted author on race and religion in the United States, will present a lecture titled ?American Muslims After 9/11: A Story of Integration or of Alienation?? on Thursday, March 27, 5:30 p.m., in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. The event is open to the public free of charge.

Currently a reporter at Business Week, Barrett was a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal for 18 years. He is the author of The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America (1999), and American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion (2007), which was named one of the Best Books of the Year in 2007 by Publishers Weekly.

?What, for Muslims, is a normal American Life? That?s a question many Muslims in this country are seeking to answer,? wrote Barrett in American Islam, which states that there are as many as six million Muslims currently living in the U.S. ?Given the times, it?s something that all thoughtful Americans ought to ponder. I had the question in mind when I set out after the attacks of September 11, 2001, to learn about Muslim life in the United States.?

Continued Barrett, ? My interviews took me from university campuses to maximum-security prisons, from elite corporate offices in midtown Manhattan to the fruit groves of Northern California. I spoke with hundreds of Muslims from a wide range of backgrounds about their startlingly varied American journeys.?

Barrett?s lecture is part of a Skidmore series on Islam and contemporary culture. The series is sponsored by the Zankel Chair of Management, the Office of Student Diversity Programs, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the International Affairs Program, the Women?s Studies Program, and the student organization Hayat.