Next week, I’ll be in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the Film Criticism Forum on the topic of spirituality in cinema. The title of my talk is “Multifaith Cinema and Interreligious Dialogue” and my fellow panelists are Naminata Diabate (Cornell University), Syed Haider (University of East Anglia), and the artist Ruba Al-Sweel. I’m grateful to curator Livia Alexander for this invitation and opportunity to speak about topics that have been the focus of my research for quite some time. The event is a very small part of the larger Islamic Art Biennale that began in January 23 and ends in April 23.
