12 pm: Complementary Lunch Reception 1 pm: Preview Screening + Discussion Our special two-day celebration of the life and legacy of jazz pianist, composer, and mentor Yusuf Salim continues with ...

Featuring Frankie Alexander, Eve Cornelious, Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon and Adia Ledbetter Jazz pianist, composer, and mentor Yusuf Salim — known by the community as Brother Yusuf — was born ...

Featuring Gary Bartz, Eve Cornelious, Chip Crawford, Nnenna Freelon and Rachiim Ausar-Sahu Jazz pianist, composer, and mentor Yusuf Salim — known by the community as Brother Yusuf — was born ...

“Wednesdays @ The Center” MIPSTERZ has focused its recent efforts around Muslim Futurism-a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and Palestinian liberationism-imagining a broader Muslim future ...

In partnership with MIPSTERZ, Duke Arts is proud to present a joint screening of three films exploring futures near and far: “Building Bridges: Muslims in America”  “ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM,” ...

In partnership with the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke Arts, MIPSTERZ is proud to present a panel discussion exploring Muslim Futurism and the academic and creative disciplines that support the dreaming of alternate futures. ...

Created by MIPSTERZ in collaboration with Duke Performances and Duke Arts, this free community event at NorthStar Church of the Arts explores the myriad futures being created in Muslim and ...

Join Duke Performances and Duke Islamic Studies Center for a poetry reading by Tariq Touré. Tariq Touré’s poetry and prose has been featured in award-winning publications such as Muslim Matters, ...

Join Duke Performances, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Center for Muslim Life for a conversation between musician, actor and performer Dua Saleh, Treniyyah Anderson ‘20, and the Center for ...

Minneapolis-based vocalist, spoken-word poet, and actor Dua Saleh began recording music only two years ago, garnering immediate acclaim with the release of 2019’s Nūr — meaning “the light” in Arabic. ...

Join Black Muslim Talkspace as they host a poetry reading and Q&A by Sadiyah Bashir. Black Muslim Talk Space is an intimate reflection space for those at the intersections of ...

Acclaimed poet Sadiyah Bashir, in residence this spring as part of Duke Performances’ ongoing Building Bridges: Muslims in America series, sits down with Rashida James-Saadiya (Sapelo Square) for a virtual ...

Acclaimed poet, activist, recording artist, and filmmaker Amir Sulaiman will join Youssef Carter (UNC Religious Studies) for a screening of his new short film Laying Flowers Setting Fires. Sulaiman will ...

Join Gnawa LanGus, fronted by GRAMMY-nominated musician Samir LanGus, for a free community workshop on the indigenous music and dance traditions of Morocco and North Africa. For all levels of ...

Thursday and Friday, January 30-31 Rubenstein Arts Center, Rm. 102 Free and open to the public A two-day symposium co-sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, African and African American ...

Hisham Aidi (Columbia University), acclaimed author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture, gives a lecture on “Race, Music, and the Global Andalus.” A Senior Lecturer ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Brooklyn-based rock band Habibi has made a name for itself through an infectious juxtaposition of surf pop and riff-heavy punk. In this free lunchtime conversation at The Pinhook in downtown ...

Iconic Muslim-American hip-hop artist Brother Ali sits down with Joseph Winters (Duke Divinity School) for a free public conversation touching on Brother Ali’s music, career, and activism in post-9/11 America. ...

Scholar, artist, and activist Su’ad Abdul Khabeer (University of Michigan) reflects in this evening talk at the John Hope Franklin Center on how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness both ...

Acclaimed rapper and producer Oddisee sits down with Durham videographer Saleem Reshamwala (aka KidEthnic) for a free public conversation touching on Oddisee’s music, career, and how his Sudanese-American heritage has ...

Garage rock delivered in Farsi? That’s what Brooklyn band Habibi plays on Cardamom Garden, its delightful 2018 album. At the start of its finale, singer Rahill Jamalifard launches into a ...

Amir Mohamed el Khalifa, or the incisive rapper and elegant producer Oddisee, grew up in two worlds. The son of an African-American mother and a Sudanese father, he spent his ...

From his complicated backstory to his compelling rhymes, Brother Ali is a rapper without a rival. Albino and legally blind, he struggled to find peers in the midwestern states where ...

Amir ElSaffar is one of the United States’ most inventive musicians. With his Two Rivers Ensemble, he plays trumpet, layering Middle Eastern melodies with jazz improvisation in search of tarab, ...