Item Details

coverage

Winston-Salem (N.C.)

creator

Gardner, Steve

Idris, Ammar

date

2019-11-07T14:39:46Z

2019-11-07T14:39:46Z

2017-11-29

2019-11-07 (issued)

description

Ammar Idris is a Sophomore at Wake Forest University majoring in Biology and considering the pre-dental track. Idris moved to Sudan with his family when he was seven years old and returned before his ninth grade year. In this oral history Idris speaks in depth about his experiences moving between the private Muslim education he received in the US and the private Christian education he received in Sudan and then his transition to public schooling for his junior and senior years of high school. He describes the impact his paternal grandfather had on his faith experiences and how his faith serves as both a comfort and strength of will in his daily life. Before becoming a student at Wake Forest University, Idris attended a Friday sermon at Howard to help him make his decision on schools; that day, the Chaplain of Wake Forest was giving a guest sermon at Howard University and spoke to him about the Muslim population at Wake.

790A Knowledge Dispels Fear: Islam and Islamophobia: Student Interview Project

Faculty director: Dr. Joshua Canzona, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Part-Time Assistant Teaching Professor of Theology, School of Divinity (Wake Forest University)

format

audio/mp3

1:01:12

oral histories

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/95593

language

English

relation

Special Collections and Archives

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest University

History of Wake Forest University Oral Histories (RG53.1)

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subject

Muslim college students

Wake Forest University

Sudan

Islam

title

Idris, Ammar, oral history and interview

type

sound