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REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR SPRING 2024 COURSES!

There is still time to register for the Spring 2024 semester. Contact [email protected] or visit our website www.aicusa.edu for more information.

AIC is offering a number of exciting courses for both credit and audit this Spring term. These include Islam, Muslims, and the Media, which will be taught by Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of CAIR-Chicago, and History of Islamic Art and Architecture with Ann Birkelbach, Prof. of Religion and Art at George Mason University.

For a full list of courses, click here.

Read about our faculty and instructors here.

For BA course descriptions, see here.

For MA course descriptions, see here.

For MDiv course descriptions, see here.

CHECK OUT THESE

COURSE ELECTIVES

IS 566: Islam and the Media

AHMED REHAB, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT

CAIR-CHICAGO

Starts: January 16, 2024

Asynchronous and Synchronous Online Sessions

Open to non-degree students

Ahmed Rehab is Executive Director of the Chicago Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations as well as CAIR's National Strategic Communications Director. CAIR is the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group.

A prolific writer and lecturer on contemporary social issues including civil rights, media relations, and Islam-West relations, Rehab lectures at various University campuses in Chicago and around the nation.

Rehab comments regularly as a guest on various local TV and cable news programs, as well as on radio stations. He has been interviewed by news publications such as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Herald, the Washington Post, the Orlando Sentinel, the Economist, the Boston Globe, Crain's Business Magazine, Germany's Die Zeit, and many more. His Op-Ed's have been published in numerous newspapers around the country.

Rehab serves as a board member of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) a co-founder of the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University. He served as a board member and secretary of the Egyptian American Society, a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' (CCGA) Muslim task force, and an Eisenhower fellow of the American Assembly. [Read More Here].

IS 328: History of Islamic Art

and Architecture

DR. ANN BIRKELBACH

PROF. OF RELIGION AND ART AT

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Starts: January 18, 2024

Asynchronous and Synchronous Online Sessions

Open to non-degree students

Ann Birkelbach teaches courses on Islamic Art & Architecture, Sacred Art of World Religions, Sacred Arts of Islam, Traditional Crafts and Cultures at George Mason University. Ann has conducted lectures on Islamic Art and Architecture for the Smithsonian Resident Associates, World Art History Program. Prior to her teaching role, she served as Assistant Director at the Center for Global Islamic Studies (2010-2019) and Program Coordinator for the MEIS program.

Ms. Birkelbach received dual master's degrees in Art History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures from Indiana University at Bloomington. She holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

ARABIC 101

NON-CREDIT COMMUNITY COURSE

The Arabic Language Institute (ALI) at American Islamic College is pleased to offer an introductory Arabic class for members of the

wider community this spring term.

- Learn the Arabic alphabet and sounds

- Learn how to hold a conversation in Arabic

- Learn how to read and write Arabic words and sentences

- Learn about Arabic culture; calligraphy, food, music, Arabic dialects,

and more!

The class will be offered online and will be open to all.

Mondays & Wednesdays, 6-7:45 pm CT

AIC IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM CHAPLAINS!