More than 500 people crowded into the Macgowan Little Theater at UCLA on Saturday night to attend “Calling for the Beloved,” the first annual Sufi celebration in Los Angeles. The event was presented by the Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi, or MTO, Sufi Association at UCLA. Sufism is a discipline, not a religion, that emphasizes self-knowledge […]
Author Archives: Nimmie Singh
Options for travel study abound
Lukas Brekke-Miesner said when he travelled to Cordoba, Spain, he learned about a rich new culture and began to identify with the country’s unique way of life. The third-year sociology student, who went to Spain with the Education Abroad Program, recalled such experiences as communicating with locals and visiting beautiful monuments such as the Mesquita […]