AIF Visual Art Links
Featured Artist
Audrey Galex
Audrey is part of the AIF Advisory Board
Storyteller and Video biographer Telling stories is one of the most powerful ways we teach and transmit values. Storyteller Audrey Galex believes in sharing those values and the friendships that are formed in the process. “I see telling stories as the very glue that hangs humanity together,” says Galex. “And when we share those stories across cultures, we deepen our connection to the humanity we share with people across time, space and geography.”In part through storytelling, an interfaith community is emerging in Atlanta and Galex sees herself as part of this effort, which includes clergy, academics, media and lay leaders, visual and performing artists. “The Jewish story needs to be part and parcel of that, as expressed through the diversity of our experience – from the Middle East to the Eastern European diaspora, and through the many ways we tell stories, from the stories behind our family recipes to the stories we sing as lullabies to our babies.”
Galex helped to start an Interfaith Storytelling Circle in 2000, the Jewish-Muslim Women’s Baking Circle in 2003 and a Jewish Storytelling Circle in 2009. She also produces a news magazine program for Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters. Each initiative promotes sharing and understanding with the hope that by breaking down cultural barriers, we become partners in building a peaceful future.
The Jewish-Muslim Woman’s Baking Circle is a gathering of women from both faiths who share their recipes, culinary expertise and informal conversation. Galex partners with Sourmaya Khalifa, Executive Director of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, inviting women to gather every few months to create dishes such as baklava, rugelach and grape leaves. Both women encourage others to form groups to share food, drink and conversation, and see what develops.
Galex produces and hosts Winter’s Light: An Evening of Interfaith Storytelling/Arts. The annual event takes place mid-December and includes performances by storytellers, musicians, visual artists, dancers, poets and others who represent a variety of faith and ethnic traditions.
Galex uses her storytelling to promote environmental stewardship and Middle East peace. She hosts “Arava on the Air,” a monthly on-line interview program with environmental activists and peace advocates. Sharing stories to help individuals, families and organizations preserve their history, Galex produces video biographies and teaches other to do their own oral histories.
The Jewish Storytelling Circle meets at the William Breman Jewish Home. Plans for the 2010 Interfaith Storytelling Circle and Winter’s Light program is under way. The baking group will meet in early 2010 to make pie crust.
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Visual Artists featured at monthly discussion meetings
A Jihad for Love
"Allah Made Me Funny"
American Muslim Teenager's Handbook
American Ramadan
A Mystical Journey
Football Undercover
FUNdamentalist Films
Interview with Zarqa Nawaz
"Me and the Mosque"
"Little Mosque on the Prairie"
**Season 1 of Little Mosque on the Prairie is available to check out from the AIF Library!**
Graphic/Web Design: Makki Style
I am a Muslim!(MAS)
I am a Muslim- Public Service Announcement
I am a Muslim - International
I am a Muslim - Neighbor
Iraqi LGBT - A New Fear in Iraq
Kelly Izdihar Crosby
Khalil Bendib
"Land called Paradise"
Modest and Beautiful - Hijab Photo Blog
Muslims for Peace
Muslim Girl World
My Stroke of Insight
Norwegian Muslim Photo Blog
On a Wing and a Prayer
Progress Theatre
Rumi Returning
Sara Rahbar
Short Film: Hijab of Dena
The 99 Comic Book Series
The Domestic Crusaders
Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?
You're So Wrong About Me
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Important LInks
AIF Library
AIF Audio Links
AIF Visual Art Links
featured Video Link
Persepolis
Persepolis is a coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.
Learn more about the film
Heard from...
Ahmed Ahmed
On acting:
Q: What is your dream role?
AA: An Arab superhero. Arab Spiderman or Arab Falal King. A guy who fights crime with hummus or tabbouleh. Honestly, I just want to play a cop or doctor or someone normal.