In a program organized by the University of Arkansas (UA), Fayetteville High School students interviewed local Muslims and “told their stories through art,” which was then displayed in a university exhibit titled, “Putting a Face on Islam.”
The students found their subjects through UA’s department of International Students and Scholars, and met with professors in its Middle Eastern studies program.
One of the assignments entailed visiting a mosque, creating paper cut artwork “decorated to resemble a mosque,” and adding pictures “within it representing what they had experienced during their visit.”
Focusing explicitly on religion and pushing a narrative of rampant “Islamophobia” in the US, this program is yet another example of Middle East studies academics helping to foster the inappropriate insertion of Islam into public education.
