Heavy Metal Islam
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 THURSDAY AT 3PM CT

 


  Get ready for Heavy Metal Islam! The first program in our illuminating year-long series Inside Islam features scholar/musician Mark Levine and members of Acrassicauda, Bagdad's only heavy metal band.

Guest
  • Mark Levine, author of "Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam," who's also played with several of the bands he mentions in that book
  • Suroosh Alvi, a Pakistani Canadian journalist and film-maker, co-Director of "Heavy Metal in Baghdad," a documentary
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