Rose Deighton, Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Studies at Emory University and blogger for the Huffington Post critic of Children's Museum of Manhattan's America to Zanzibar exhibit:
America to Zanzibar is a new exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Manhattandesigned to highlight the vast diversity of Islamic cultures. Today more than ever, it is of immense importance that we begin to appreciate the complexity and great differences that exist within Muslim societies.
America to Zanzibar’s visual beauty and interactive qualities provide children and adult visitors with a tangible experience of Islamic diversity that will certainly expand our imaginations of “the Islamic.” For this reason, it is a timely contribution to our collective experience of the Islamic world and an important reminder of the diversity here at home among American Muslims.