SBIA Family Night

My Family is at the Masjid
You are all cordially invited with your family and friends along with all the Community members to the monthly SBIA Family Night Educational & Social program and dinner as per the following: Date:  October 2, 2009,  Friday, Time: 6:30 PM. Location: Downtown San Jose Masjid, 325 N. 3rd Street,  San Jose, CA, Phone: 408-947-9389

Agenda: 6:50 PM:  Magrib Prayer,   7:00 PM:  Dinner,   8:00 PM: Isha Prayer, 8:15 PM to 9:45 PM: Presentations

TOPIC: How Muslim Culture Has Influenced America for the Better – From the Time of Columbus to the Present Day

SPEAKER: Jonathan Curiel, Author-Journalist
Speaker’s Bio:  Author of “Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots,” which won a 2008 American Book Award, Research fellow at Oxford 2005-2006, Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Pakistan 1993094, Staff writer at San Francisco Chronicle for 20 years, Wrote for Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review LA Times.

Abstract:  The talk will explain how Muslim culture has had a positive influence on America for more than 500 years. Everything from Islamic architecture to the Arabic language, Arab music to food and drink from Muslim lands, has impacted America for the better, starting with this country’s beginnings with Christopher Columbus in 1492. The influence continues to today.