FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 14, 2008
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Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
                 216.397.1958
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John Carroll University’s
Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies Presents a Lecture Entitled

“Dynamic Movements of Peace in Islam Today”

By Rev. Thomas Michel, SJ
Of the Indonesian Jesuit Province

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Center for Science and Technology
This event is free and open to the public

Rev. Thomas Michel, S.J. 

Father Michel, a St. Louis native, belongs to the Indonesian Jesuit Province, and is secretary of Interreligious Dialogue for the Society of Jesus in Rome.  In Bangkok, Thailand, he also serves as secretary for Ecumenism of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences.

A Ph.D. in Arabic language and Islamic religion from the University of Chicago, Father Michel teaches regularly in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines.  In 1998 he gave the Martin D’Arcy Lectures at Oxford University on Muslim-Christian encounters in history. 

The Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies at John Carroll University presents “The Week of Islamic Art and Culture.”

216.397.6279
                        nursi@jcu.edu

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.
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