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Mosque Alert

Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Thursday, February 26, 2015, Friday, February 27, 2015, Saturday, February 28, 2015

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Harbach Theatre, CFA

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Knox College Theatre in collaboration with Silk Road Rising presents the college world premiere of Mosque Alert by Jamil Khoury, playwright-in-residence.

Mosque Alert tells the story of three suburban American families living in Naperville, Illinois -- one nominally Christian, the other two observantly Muslim -- who find their lives intertwined and interrupted by a proposal to build a new mosque in their community. The proposed Al Ulama Library and Community Center is a large, architecturally ambitious complex slated to be built on the site of a much beloved though now defunct library in Naperville's downtown. Mosque Alert explores who we are as 21st-century Americans amidst debates about community, identity, religious pluralism, multiculturalism, Islamophobia, national security, and civil rights.

The show will be running from February 25-28, at 7:30 p.m. each evening.