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Ron Hansen’s books are available at UST libraries VIEW.
Or read his biography in Contemporary Authors VIEW.
Yasmin Levy
For background information on the Jews in the Middle Ages, take a look at this essay from the Companion to the Medieval World in Blackwell Reference Online VIEW
The concert will feature, among other instruments, a darbuka. Learn more about it from Oxford Music Online VIEW
Or listen to it being played, along with other Turkish instruments, from Smithsonian Global Sound VIEW
For those unfamiliar with Sephardim, the Encyclopedia Judaica offers a nice essay.
Or find articles on Ladino, Sephardim or medieval Spain in either the International Medieval Bibliography or ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance VIEW.
“Hidden Yearning”
Background information on Rumi in the Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an VIEW
Before you engage in a discussion with Ms. Laurin, you might want to learn something about the history and construction of the organ from Oxford Music Online VIEW
and check out the Key- and stop-mechanism of a single-manual organ with suspended action VIEW
Film: "The Message"
The movie The Message, known also as Mohammed, the messenger of God was highly controversial back in the 70’s, despite the fact that the director is a Moslem and made every effort never to show Mohammed. Read about the controversy in the New York Times of 1977 VIEW