In a ceremony on December 7, 2011, Nazareth College of Rochester became the beneficiary of a new academic chair endowed by IIIT. The chair appropriately named ‘International Institute of Islamic Thought Chair in Interfaith Studies and Dialogue’ is placed in the Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, which is now named after Brian and Jean Hickey who gifted funds to endow the Center. Mr. Brian Hickey is a trustee of the College. The IIIT donation was a challenge grant for which the Hickeys provided matching donation...

In its last lecture of the 2011 Lecture Series, IIIT hosted on Friday December 16^th Dr. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Maryland and a former Iranian diplomat. He spoke about “Rethinking Diplomacy and Islam: A Focus on Iran”....

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), in partnership with the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS) at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, organized a series of special events in honor of Professor Ali Mazrui, at the 45^th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), held at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington DC on November 18-19, 2011.

The special events started on Friday, November 18 with an exhibition of selected items from the Mazrui collection and memorabilia. The full collection that includes more than forty ...