Madrasa-Midrasha

Madrasa-Midrasha Calligraphy Workshop

The Madrasa-Midrasha Program at the GTU is delighted to welcome you to an evening of interactive Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy. The event will feature presentations by Peretz Wolf-Prusan and Arash Shirinbab moderated by Carol Bier. The workshop will be in-person with limited space, so please register at the link below. Snacks and socializing to follow.

Madrasa-Midrasha ​| Mystical Reading in Islamic & Jewish Traditions

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for an online event on mystical reading in Islamic and Jewish traditions, featuring Fateme Montazeri (UC Berkeley) and Sam S.B. Shonkoff (GTU).

Madrasa-Midrasha Emerging Scholars Colloquium

Comparative Approaches in Jewish and Islamic Studies

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for a webinar on "Comparative Approaches in Jewish and Islamic Studies" featuring Jerusha Rhodes (Islam, Social Justice and Interreligious Engagement Program (ISJIE) at Union Theological Seminary) and Noa Bar-Gabai (Swig Program for Jewish Studies and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco).

Preparing for Sacred Seasons

Please join the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Program Director Dr. Deena Aranoff and Madrasa-Midrasha Program Director Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala in preparation for Passover and Ramadhan.

Beyond the Binary | A Madrasa-Midrasha Faculty Colloquia Public Forum

Please join us for an exciting public program in which participants in a two-year Madrasa-Midrasha Faculty Colloquia will reflect upon the ways in which their scholarship takes them "beyond the binary:" beyond the binaries of Jew/Muslim, east/west, center/periphery, religious/secular, sacred/mundane. Participants include: Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, Deena Aranoff, Daniel Boyarin, Mahjabeen Dhala, Sam Shonkoff, and Nargis Virani.

This special Madrasa-Midrasha event stems from the work of two MA students at the GTU, Mia Trachtenberg and Sakinah Alhabshi, who were awarded a Haas Student Research Grant in 2021. The event focuses on how Chaplains use art and creativity in their work with guest speakers Taqwa Surapati, Cancer Care Chaplain at Stanford Health Care, and Amy Shoemaker, Director of Operations for the Covid Grief Network and Relief Chaplain at Stanford Health Care.