Muslims in Muncie

Description: An hour-long documentary film that traces a half-century of Muslims community building in Muncie, Indiana, from the 1960s to 2018, as told by community members. The film draws on oral history interviews with twenty-two Muslims who represent a dozen nations of origin and are diverse in race, ethnicity, sect, gender, age, and profession.
Students in the immersive learning seminar “Muslims in Muncie,” funded through the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, conducted this first oral history and film project with Muncie’s Muslim community in Spring 2018. Dr. Elizabeth Agnew, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University, directed the project in partnership with the Islamic Center of Muncie and Ball State University’s Center for Middletown Studies.; Elizabeth N. Agnew (Interviewer, Executive Producer); Mendim Akiti (Interviewer, Story Writing and Editing); Afrah Ali (Interviewer); Ball State Digital Corps (Film Editing and Motion Graphics); Jeff Bowers (Caption Writer); Allison Hunt (Interviewer, Story Writing and Editing); Jessica Kerrigan (Interviewer); Benjamin Michael McIntosh (Interviewer, Story Writing and Editing); Abbey Meus (Interviewer); Anna Mitchel (Interviewer); Kyle Orr (Interviewer); Ren Rainey (Interviewer, Story Writing and Editing); Devon M. Roddell (Interviewer, Story Writing and Editing, Director, Film Editing and Motion Graphics); Marisa Williams (Interviewer)
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Origin: 2018
Created By: Agnew, Elizabeth N.; Akiti, Mendim; Ali, Afrah; Ball State Digital Corps; Bowers, Jeff; Hunt, Allison; Kerrigan, Jessica; McIntosh, Benjamin Michael; Meus, Abbey; Mitchel, Anna; Orr, Kyle; Rainey, Ren; Roddell, Devon M.; Williams, Marisa
Contributor(s): Abdul-Hadi, Fareed; Al Herz, Huda; Al Khatib, Bachar; Ali, Afrah; Ali, Mir Masoom; Almassrahy, Anas; Attallah, Sherif; Bahrami, Asma; Bahrami, Bibi; Bahrami, Mohammad Saber; Behforooz, Mitra; Benkato, Omar; Conley, Renee; El Saadoon, Selwa; El-Ghit, Zahra; Faiz, M. Faiz; Hedgecoe, Sara; Malasalih, Safwan; McKinney, Richard; Selimovic, Muhamed; Shipley, Amanda; Shohatee, Hazim
Ball State University. Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry; Ball Brothers Foundation
Source: http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/MuslimsMuncie/id/17
Collection: Muslims in Muncie Oral Histories and Documentary Project
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Geography: Muncie
Delaware County
Indiana
United States
North and Central America
Subjects: Oral Histories
Islam
Islamic Center of Muncie
Black Muslims
Muslims--United States
Ball State University. Muslim Student Association
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Muslim Alliance of Indiana
Islamic Society of North America
Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry
Ball State University

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