Rediscovering Islam through the Fulbright Experience
Rediscovering Islam through the Fulbright Experience

Summary/Abstract: On a pleasant, breezy, mildly sunny evening in April 2005, in the ‘city of Iowa city’, Dr. Jane Desmond escorted me into the lecture hall in the McBride building. This was to introduce me to the young men and women who had opted for the Summer Seminar on ‘US, Islam, and the Contemporary Crisis’ that I was scheduled to teach as an international Visitor sponsored by Fulbright India and the International Forum of US Studies (IFUSS), directed by Drs Jane Desmond and Virginia Dominguez at the University of Iowa.As I heard Jane speak about my career in International Relations, my interest in American Studies, my academic achievements, and my earlier visits to the University of Iowa, I surveyed the bright young faces of men and women in front of me—about thirty in all. I was informed earlier by the IFUSS office that it was the maximum permissible intake for a summer course, which had enthused me as well as alerted me to make this experience worth the efforts of all concerned.

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