Sunday, January 18, 2026
1:00 PM

Meet Rothko Chapel President Imam Abdullah Antepli
Open to all community members, free registration forthcoming

Join us for a festive introduction to our new president and learn about exciting new initiatives at the Rothko Chapel!

Abdullah Antepli is a globally acknowledged scholar and leader of cross-religious and cross-cultural dialogue in American higher education and non-profits. He has built multiple organizations and initiatives to facilitate religious and spiritual life across America’s college campuses, sowing seeds of understanding between religions while upholding their cultural integrity and dignity. Antepli joined the Rothko Chapel in September 2025, following prominent teaching and administrative positions at Duke University as the Sanford School of Public Policy associate professor of the practice, with a secondary appointment at the Divinity School as associate professor of the practice of interfaith relations. He previously served as Duke University’s first Muslim chaplain and director of Center for Muslim Life, and then as Duke’s chief representative for Muslim affairs. Professor Antepli is a senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he founded and co-directs the widely recognized Muslim Leadership Initiative. The NonProfit Times recognized Imam Antepli as one of their Power & Influence Top 50 leaders of 2019, calling him one of the most prominent Muslim leaders today.