This Month on Azan
August 2, 2008
Tune in this Sunday August 10th, 2008 @ 6pm (CST) for another illuminating episode of Azan.
This month we discuss art and Islamaphobia. Art, with Chuck Trimbach. President of the Iraqi Art Gallery of Chicago. A non-profit organization representing contemporary artist in Iraq.
Islamaphobia is sadly being preached from a number of Sunday morning pulpit. We will discuss this issue with Rev. Dr. Don Wagner director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at North Park University.
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Iraqi Art, gallery
Chicago
7013 N Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
phone: 312.952.1329
Our Mission
We create opportunities for Iraqi artists to generate an
income by virtue of their talent, creativity and hard work,
not a handout. In this way, we can help the artists and
those whom they support to maintain a level of dignity in
these most undignified times.
As well, we have and will continue to organize
exhibitions from Artists around the globe who are in
similar circumstances to that of the Iraqi people. There
are millions of people worldwide who suffer, caught in the
middle of brutal conflicts in which they do not participate,
but which victimize them nonetheless.
Through our exhibitions, we provide a much needed,
more comprehensive and humanistic view of the people
and cultures in which these artists live to the Chicago
community and the American public in general. It is our
goal to promote understanding and compassion for
people who live under tyranny and oppression.
65% of the pretax sale of art goes directly to
the artists and their families.
Rev. Don Wagner is a ordain Presbyterian minister. He is cofounder of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding, is professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at North Park University, Chicago. Among his books are his most recent, “Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000,” and “Anxious for Armageddon” — which deals with Christian Zionism and alternative ways of understanding scripture and the Christian tradition.
