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Professor Farid Esack is a South African Muslim Theologian who cut his teeth in the South African struggle for liberation. He studied in Pakistan, the UK and Germany and is the author of Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism", On Being a Muslim, An Introduction to the Qur'an, and "Islam, HIV & AIDS – Reflections Based on Compassion, Responsibility and Justice. He has published on Islam, Gender, Liberation Theology, Interfaith Relations, and Qur'anic Hermeneutics.

Professor Esack served as a Commissioner for Gender Equality in South Africa and has taught at the Universities of Western Cape, and Hamburg, the College of William & Mary, Union Theological Seminary (New York) and at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is currently the William Henry Bloomberg Professor at Harvard University.

In 2000, he co-founded Positive Muslims, a South African organization working with persons living with AIDS. His three current writing projects reflect different dimensions to what he terms 'prophetic responses to power and marginalization': a) "Between Moralism and Morality – Islam, Disease and Justice' b) "Islam and Justice after 9/11" and c) Beyond Victimhood – Looking at Palestine through South African Eyes.

HOSTED BY THE WITS PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE AS PART OF AL-NAKBAH ( THE CATASTROPHE) COMMEMORATION WEEK.

Speaker: Professor Farid Esack (Anti-Apartheid activist and Harvard Professor)

Topic: Comparing Zionism with Apartheid – Privileging or undervaluing our own unique Victimhoods?

Date: 16th of May 2007

Time: 13:30

Venue: Room 15, Central block, Main campus, University of the Witwatersrand

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