AIAP cordially invites you to attend the monthly meeting on Wednesday 29th of April 2009 at
6 PM.

Many of us are well aware of the obsession of the Islamic conservatives with the veil. Some
of us may perceive it as a sign of backwardness, or of blind religiosity, but we cannot deny
that in the past few decades, few symbols have engendered as much emotion as the veil.
In this talk, Dr. Bahar Davary will discuss the complexity of the matter and the meaning of
the veil as a religious symbol and its connection with the notion of identity.

AIAP cordially invites you to attend the monthly meeting
on Wednesday 29th of April 2009 at 6 PM.
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Many of us are well aware of the obsession of the Islamic
conservatives with the veil. Some of us may perceive it as
a sign of backwardness, or of blind religiosity, but we
cannot deny that in the past few decades, few symbols have
engendered as much emotion as the veil. In this talk, Dr.
Bahar Davary will discuss the complexity of the matter and
the meaning of the veil as a religious symbol and its
connection with the notion of identity.

Dr. Bahar Davary is an assistant professor in the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the
University of San Diego. She received her Master's degree
in History of Religion from the University of Tehran. Her
interest in Comparative religion took her to the Catholic
University of America in Washington D.C. where she
received her Ph.D. in Catholic Theological Tradition and
Inter-religious Dialogue. She teaches courses Comparative
Ethics, World Religions, Islam, and Islam and Gender. She
has published articles on forgiveness, Women and
Patriarchy in Christianity and Islam, and the veil. Her
forthcoming book is Women in the Qur’an: An Islamic
Hermeneutic. Dr. Davary's approach to the study of
religion is both inter-religious and inter-disciplinary,
as a means to create more venues for dialogue between
contrasting ideas. This presentation is one such effort.


Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Time: Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m.
Announcements at 6:45 p.m.
Presentation at 8:00 p.m.
Q&A will be from 9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Place: Metropolitan Operation Center
9192 Topaz Way, San Diego, CA 92123

Admission: Free to general public.

Dinner: $12 for AIAP members with RSVP
$6 for Student Members with RSVP
$14 for Non-members with RSVP
$5 additional charge for non-RSVP attendees