Indiana University Presents "Esse Quam Videri: Muslim Self Portraits"

AOA NEWS
By Ernest Britton

Tamir, a member of Nation of Islam

INDIANA - In America, there are three categories of Muslims but most Americans lump them all together as one. Immigrants such as Zaki from Pakistan; American converts such as Tamir, born in South Carolina but who joined the Nation of Islam; and those born to the first two groups such as Nushimia -- all muslim, all different but part of the world's second largest faith, Islam. This winter, a museum on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington is hosting a traveling exhibit featuring images of those three Muslims, and 16 others from a variety of backgrounds who worked with photographer Todd Drake to present themselves in the portraits (esse quam videri is Latin for "to be, rather than to seem"). For more information on the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, visit at 416 North Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN, (812) 855-6873, or indiana.edu/~mathers/home.html.