Mike wolfe today
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An American Muslim's Transformation on Hajj
Wednesday, July 22nd at 8:00 PM EST
Bio:
Michael Wolfe is a poet, author, and film producer. His first film, a 1997 "Hajj Report from Mecca" for ABC Nightline, was nominated for Emmy, National Press Club, and George Polk Awards. In 1999, he co-founded Unity Productions Foundation with Alex Kronemer. In 20 years, UPF has produced eleven award-winning documentary films on Muslim themes.
As an author, Michael has published ten books of poetry, fiction and travel. He has been an Amy Lowell Traveling Poets scholar and a resident at the MacDowell Colony. His books on Islam include The Hadj, An American’s Journey to Mecca (Atlantic Monthly, 1993), and One Thousand Roads to Mecca (Grove, 1997), on which the British Museum based a 2012 Hajj exhibition. He has also published a book of ancient Greek poems in translation with Johns Hopkins University Press (2014) and edited a book of post-9/11 essays, Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith (2002).
Michael was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In his mid 20s, h
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Simerg – Insights from Around the World
By MICHAEL WOLFE
Jesus of Nazareth is the most widely revered religious figure in the world. Not only is he central to Christianity, the largest religion in the world, he is also venerated throughout Islam, the world’s second largest faith.
Christians may be surprised to learn that Muslims believe in the Virgin Birth and Jesus’ miracles. But this shared interest in his message goes much further.
In our scientific age, the miraculous side of Jesus’ story has greatly obscured his role in the prophetic tradition. In this sense, there may be more important questions for Muslims and Christians than whether he walked on water or raised the dead.
In the Muslim view, Jesus’ essential work was not to replicate magic bread or to test our credulity, but to complement the legalism of the Torah with a leavening compassion rarely expressed in the older testament. His actions and words introduce something new to monotheism: They develop the merciful spirit of God’s nature. Jesus confirmed the Torah, stressing th
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From Michael Wolfe:
I began writing seriously at age 14. I happened upon a biography of Ezra Pound in my hometown library in a Cincinnati suburb, and the story of a poet’s dedication to the written word turned a tumbler in my being; that he got into trouble later, and occasionally wore an ear-ring, increased the mystique.
At fifteen, I sent some of my poems to John Ciardi, care of the SaturdayReview, for which he wrote a column on language. This correspondence landed me at Bread Loaf Writers Conference the following summer. There I met Robert Frost, John Berryman, and Dudley Fitts. Later, Berryman and Fitts directed me toward Wesleyan University, and Richard Wilbur, and helped me enter university despite a lousy performance in high school math. I “studied” poetry with Dick Wilbur for 4 years at Wesleyan; this invaluable experience consisted of visiting his office once a week for an hour and showing him a new poem, if I had one. Rather than major in the literature of my own language, I studied Greek and Latin, French and German. How wise this was
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