HONOLULU, Hawaii — In the late 1930s, tobacco heiress Doris Duke built a sprawling mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Inspired by her travels, she chose architectural styles from the Islamic world. For the rest of her life, Duke amassed an extensive collection of Islamic art from many countries. Today, Shangri La is open to the public through the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
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From August 19 to September 10, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton will be a member of the 2015 Senior Journalists Seminar, sponsored by the East-West Center. The group is traveling from Washington, DC to Nashville and then on to Honolulu, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and finally Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan for meetings with government, religious, media, and cultural leaders and activists. Follow her travels on this blog and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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