PROGRAM

NOVEMBER 13 - 14, 2020

VIRITUAL CONFERENCE
This academic conference is a cooperation between
the Islamic Studies department of Huron University
College and Respect Graduate School. Huron
University College is an affiliated University College
of the University of Western Ontario in London,
Ontario, Canada. Respect Graduate School is an
academic institution located in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, that grants a Master of the Arts degree
in Islamic Studies as well as certifications in Quranic
Studies and Chaplaincy.

This event would not be possible without the generous

support and contribution from our conference sponsor, Mr.
Mohamed Mansour.
 BEHIND
THE LOGO
Viruses are not found among the “created things” described by Qazwini nor
by any other pre-modern scholar. Some Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Sina,
al-Abdari, and others, understood contagion and contamination to be
processes involved in the spread of disease, and warned that air, water and
human breath, as well as contact with objects carrying harmful substances
could result in disease. Even in the 19th century, when scientists became
aware of the existence of viruses, their structure was unknown and viruses
remained invisible forces until the invention of the electron microscope.
Until today, there are many forces in creation, such as thoughts, subatomic
particles and astronomical bodies that remain invisible to human beings,
although their effects can be observed, and knowledge based on those
observations can contribute to the improvement of human life.

For the believer, the signs of creation point to the Creator, Who is unseen.
Reflecting upon God’s signs, following the truths revealed by Allah, and
submitting to God’s command, puts the believer on the path to success. In
this illustration of “the element of air” from an illustrated copy of Qazwini’s
“Book of Created Things,” we see clouds moving and grasses and trees
bending as they experience the invisible force of the wind. As believers
living through the COVID19 pandemic, we too must submit and respond to
circumstances ordained by God. We use our God-given capacities of body,
intellect and heart/emotion within the limits set by God to benefit the
servants of God and to refine our spiritual capacities.

Logo designed based on: The element of air from a 10th/16th c. illustrated
copy of Qazwini’s ʿAjaʾib al-Makhluqāt, held by the Cambridge University
Library.
 CONFERENCE
CO-CHAIRS
DR. INGRID MATTSON
Since 2012 Dr. Ingrid Mattson (PhD, Chicago) has held the London and Windsor
Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College at Western
University in London, Canada. Previously she was Professor of Islamic Studies at
Hartford Seminary (CT) where she developed and directed the first graduate
program for Muslim chaplains in North America and served as Director of the
Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. Her
writings focus on Qur’anic Studies, theological ethics and interfaith
engagement. Dr. Mattson is past president of the ISNA (USA) and is a Senior
Fellow of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Jordan). Some of
her work can be found at: ingridmattson.org. Her current major research project,
The Hurma Project, is committed to upholding the sacred inviolability (hurma) of
each person who is present in Muslim spaces by elucidating the special
responsibilities of those holding power and authority and by educating those
who are vulnerable about their God-given dignity and rights. hurmaproject.com/

DR. HALIM CALIS

Dean of Academics, Respect Graduate School
Halim Calis graduated from Ankara University (Ankara, Turkey) and completed his
MA on Islamic Theology at Marmara University (Istanbul, Turkey). He completed
another MA on World Religions at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Divinity School. His
doctoral dissertation is on Shams al-Dīn al-Fanārī (d. 1431), an Ottoman scholar
who appropriated Akbarī hermeneutics in his Qur’an commentary. Besides the
formal education Halim has received, he has been studying the classical sources
of Islam since 1990’s. His research interests include the Qur’anic Studies,
Sufism, Ottoman History and Islamic History. He conducts research in English,
Turkish and Arabic. He can also read French and Persian. He has published
encyclopedia entries, book chapters and articles for Turkish and English
magazines.
PROGRAM

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 DAY ONE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Welcome: Representatives of Respect Graduate School

and Huron University College at Western
Quran Reciter: Mujesira Neimarlija

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Keynote and Panel #1 – Perspectives from Muslim

Physicians & Nurses
Dr. Wael Haddara – Keynote – “The Pandemic as a
Mirror of Ourselves: Stories of Hope and Lessons for
Change”
Dr. Nour Akhras - “The Covid19 pandemic: Focusing
the Islamic lens of the Microscope on the American-
Muslim Physician Experience”
Sisters Namariq Ahmed, RN, MN & Areej Ahmed, RN,
MScN – "What COVID19 Can't Take from Us"
Moderator: Dr. Ingrid Mattson

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM Break

Music: Istanbul Trio

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM Panel #2 – When Crisis Hits the Community

Chaplain Khurram Ahmed, “EOL Care for
Unrepresented Muslims: How COVID-19 Created a
Tool for Beyond the Pandemic”
Chaplain Zubair Yousif, “Faith, Spiritual Care and the
COVID 19 Pandemic: The Prison Chaplain Response”
Dr. Fatih Harpci, “Loving your Neighbor in the Age of
the Pandemic”
Moderator: Imam Yasin Dwyer

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6:45 PM - 7:15 PM Break
Sponsors and Patrons

7:15 PM - 8:45 PM Panel #3 – We are Sad & We Have Hope

Dr. Sulayman Sertkaya, “2020 The Year of Sorrow:
Lessons and Coping Strategies from the Most Difficult
Year of the Prophet's Life”
Chaplain Samsiah Abdul-Majid, “In a State of Hope…
my son died, alone…”
Dr. Bilal Ansari, “Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve
Seen: A Lived Theology”
Moderator: Dr. Kameelah Mu’min Rashad

8:45 PM Closing Remarks

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 DAY TWO SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Opening of the Day

Qur’an Reciter: Mujesira Neimarlija

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Panel #4 – Theory & Practice

Dr. Muhammad Tahir, “Strategies for Pastoral and
Spiritual Care during the Global Pandemic: An Islamic
Theoretical Framework for Practical Application”
Alina Jabbari, “Contemplation as resilience: finding a
balance between the individual and the communal”
Dr. Abdallah Rothman, “Finding Center in the Heart of
the Pandemic: Practical Tools from the Islamic
Tradition for Building Resiliency in Times of
Disruption and Trauma”
Moderator: Dr. Hakam Gok

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break

Music: Istanbul Trio

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM Panel #5 – Congregational Adaptations

Graduate Student & Exec. Dir. Center DC,
Lauren Schreiber, “Need Spiritual Care? Join us
Online: A Case Study of Muslim Community
Connection During COVID-19”
Dr. Mahmoud Abdallah, “When a Crisis Empties
Mosques: A Case Study of Germany and Austria’s
response to Pastoral Care”
Doctoral Student Sanaa Khan and Hafiza Insha Khan,
“Zoom Ramadan: Possibilities for Virtual Gathering in
Post-Normal Times”
Hajja Ashaki Taha-Cisse, “Reflections from a Muslim
Elder in the Pandemic”
Moderator: Dr. Tamara Gray

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12:45 PM - 1:15 PM Break
Music: Pearls of Islam

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Panel #6 – The Qur’an & Sunnah for Our Whole Selves
Dr. Samira Ibrahim, “Extracting and Contextualizing
Leadership Values from the Quran during the Covid-19
Pandemic”
Dr. Nazila Isgandarova, “Praying and Celebrating in
Times of Iztirar (Immediate Necessity): A Muslim
Response to COVID-19”
Imam Abdul-Malik Merchant, “No Fear nor Grief:
Differentiating Between Islamic Spiritual Gnosis and
Spiritual Bypassing”
Moderator: Dr. Halim Calis

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Break

Music: Istanbul Trio

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Panel #7 Spiritually-Grounded Mental Health Support

Dr. Yusra Ahmad, “Mindfully Muslim – An Islamic
Mindfulness Group Therapy Program: A Resource for
Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Dr. Salih Yucel, “An Islamic Therapy: Fear reducing
holistic approach (FERHA)”
Graduate Student Lara Dagamseh, “Talking to Children
and Youth about God During COVID-19 Pandemic:
Grounded by the Directions of the Quran and the
Sunnah”
Moderator: Dr. Zulayha Colak

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks

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SPEAKERS

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Dr. Bilal Sert - Quran reciter

Dr. Wael Haddara is the Chair/Chief Critical Care for London Health Sciences
Centre and the Site Chief of the UH Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit
(MSICU).As a medical education researcher, Wael examines the writings of
clinicians and researchers as a way of explaining their behavior and thoughts. In
doing this work, Wael understands his duty as a researcher to be one who
empowers educators to intimately know the internal lives of their students and
the effect their teachings will have. In his work on interprofessional
collaboration, for instance, he uncovers how two mutually exclusive notions—
utilitarianism and emancipation—may complicate our ability to integrate IPC
during a student’s education. Teasing out the inner logic behind fundamental
concepts is at the core of Wael’s research; his new project on the rhetoric of
altruism and professionalism will continue in this vein. Through his discourse
analysis-based program of research, medical educators will have a better
understanding of the foundation upon which competency-based education is to be
built. Without this knowledge, contemporary medical educators risk witnessing
the growth of competency-based curricula without purpose and grounding.

Areej Ahmed is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s of Science in Nursing with

Honors-Clinical Focus. She is experienced working in Cardiology, Internal
Medicine, Acute Coronary Care, Neurovascular, Pre-hospital EMS, and Geriatric
Care. Areej is skilled in Nursing Education (for both Healthcare industry and
Educational institutions), Coaching, Lecturing and Entrepreneurship. Areej is the
founder of Safe Mind, Safe Body an organization offering interactive and evidence
based workshops on Health and Safety.

Fatih Harpci, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Religion at Carthage College in

Kenosha, WI. Prof. Harpci’s major research areas include interpretation of the
Qur’an, Islamic history, Islamic eschatology, and Christian-Muslim understanding.
He has been a frequent presenter in congregations and community groups on
Islam as well as on Christian-Muslim relations and dialogue.

Chaplain Samsiah Abdul-Majid is at Westchester Medical Center.Samsiah is a

board-certified chaplain in palliative care. Her clinical pastoral education was at
the Westchester Medical Center, NY, and Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston. She is a former United Nations official, and has served as the secretary
of the Association of Muslim Chaplains (AMC) and is a co-investigator in an AMC-
Boston University Medical School pioneering study to map Muslim chaplains in
the US.

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Dr. Nour Akhras is a board-certified pediatric infectious diseases physician who
has been working at a free-standing Women and Children’s Hospital in the
suburbs of Chicago for the last 8 years. Dr. Akhras was trained in pediatrics at
the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center and completed her fellowship at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a BA in Cellular and Molecular
Biology from the University of Chicago and received her medical degree from
Rush Medical College.
Dr. Akhras was trained in traditional Islamic sciences in Damascus, Syria and has
her ijaza in tajwid through the late Shaykh Hasan al-Kurdi. She has contributed a
chapter on Islamic bioethics to a book published by Yale University entitled
What’s the Point? Clinical Reflections on Care that Seems Futile. She has served
on the board of IMAN (Inner City Muslim Action Network), a grassroots
organization that fosters transformational change in urban communities. She co-
chaired IMAN’s youth group, Pillars, for many years. This 20-year old
organization recently won the MacArthur Foundation Grant for its commitment to
Chicago.

Dr. Akhras has participated in multiple medical missions to support Syrian

refugees and displaced war victims in Yemen. She has served on the boards of
the Syrian American Medical Society Midwest chapter and MedGlobal. In 2012,
she was awarded the Muslim Women’s Alliance “Inspiring Muslim Woman” award
for her work on the exploratory mission to the volatile Syrian-Turkish border. In
2019, she was awarded MedGlobal’s “Hero” award for her work on the NGO’s
maiden medical mission to Yemen. She has advocated for the rights of refugees
by authoring op-eds in newspapers like USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times
and through speaking engagements including presenting at Washington DC’s
National Press Club on the effects the violence of the Syrian war has had on the
lives of Syrian women. She has been interviewed by news agencies such as CNN,
CBS and NPR regarding her work.

She lives in Chicago with her husband and four children.

Namarig Ahmed is a Registered Nurse who has completed her Master’s in Nursing
at Ryerson University. Namarig’s professional experience spans mental health,
chronic disease management, palliative care and sexual assault and domestic
care. Throughout her nursing journey, Namarig has maintained an interest in
creative modalities in providing humanistic, holistic and spiritual nursing care in
her various roles. Namarig is currently working with a marginalised community in
Toronto offering mental health and addictions services to Black youth and their
families.

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Imam Yasin Dwyer is the executive director of Muslim Chaplaincy of Toronto. He
was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Jamaican parents. Before joining Muslim
Chaplaincy of Toronto, Yasin was a part of the multi-faith chaplaincy team at
Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He has lectured extensively on topics
such as religion and the arts, Black Canadian culture and the history of Muslims
in the West. Along with working alongside many non-profit organizations in
Canada, Yasin was the first full-time Muslim chaplain to work with the
Correctional Service of Canada, a position he held for 11 years. He is also a board
member of the Montreal based Institut Route de la Soie/Silk Road Institute, which
is dedicated to expressing Canadian Muslim narratives through the visual,
auditory and performing arts.

Dr. Suleyman Sertkaya is a lecturer and research fellow at Charles Sturt

University (CISAC, Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation) in Melbourne,
Australia. Graduated from the School of Divinity at University of Marmara,
Istanbul. He pursued his MA in the Tafsir (exegesis) discipline of Islamic
sciences, with a particular focus on the exegesis of the Qur’an. Suleyman
completed his PhD thesis at Australian Catholic University on the Sīrah Genre. He
is currently a lecturer at Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt
University. His major interests are Sīrah (Biography of the Prophet Muhammad),
Sīrah Philosophy, Exegesis of the Qur’an, Hadith (Prophetic Tradition),
Interpretation of Islamic Sacred Texts, Islamic Theology, Radicalisation and
Islam, Islam and Morality and Interfaith Dialogue, History of Islam and Muslims in
[email protected]

Imam Dr. Bilal Ansari is Director of Campus Engagement at Williams College and
Co-Director of Islamic Chaplaincy at Hartford Seminary and Faculty Associate in
Muslim Pastoral Theology. Dr. Ansari believes in the notion of shepherding as a
Muslim form of institutional leadership. His scholarship and activism includes
serving on the Institute of Muslim Mental Health, Professional Advisory
Committee and work in the field of Diversity Equity and Inclusion.Imam Dr. Bilal
W. Ansari is a 2011 graduate of Hartford Seminary where he completed his M.Div.
equivalency and 2019 graduate of Pacific School of Religion where he received
the Doctor of Ministry degree with distinction upon submission of the dissertation
entitled, “Shepherding as Islamic Pastoral Theology: Case Studies in American
Muslim Chaplaincy.”Dr. Ansari has worked as a chaplain in military, correctional,
hospital and educational settings. Dr. Ansari was the first Muslim chaplain at
Williams College and Assistant Director of the Center of Learning in Action. Dr.
Ansari served as Dean of Student Services and Director of Student Life while
Zaytuna College was going through initial accreditation.

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Graduate Student & Exec. Dir. Center DC, Lauren Schreiber is the Executive
Director and co-founder of Center DC, a growing third-space community in
Washington, DC, that focuses on building authentic relationships between those
practicing and exploring Islam and The Divine. Her community serves over 4,000
Muslims through hundreds of events annually; the majority are between the ages
of 25 and 35. She lives for strategic planning, facilitation, and culture creation
and is passionate about creating welcoming, healthy spaces where authenticity
and differences of opinions simultaneously thrive. Lauren has had the privilege of
studying Islamic sciences under both Shaykh Suhaib Webb and Ustedah Ieasha
Prime. She is currently pursuing a degree in Islamic Chaplaincy at Hartford
Seminary, and plans to open a community-based chaplaincy program through
Center DC upon the completion of her coursework. She recently celebrated her
10th year of being Muslim. Her most important jobs are being a wife and mama to
a 3 year old girl. In her spare time, you can find her making pupusas, writing
music, and convening monthly gatherings of Muslim Practitioners of Restorative
and Transformative Justice, a peer learning group she co-founded in 2020.

Hajja Ashaki Taha-Cisse is a Muslim educator and activist. She is a student of

Shaykh Hassan Ali Cisse (d. 2008), and an elder and authorized teacher within the
Tariqa Tijaniyya Sufi order. For almost 30 years she served as the pro bono
Executive Director of the African American Islamic Institute (AAII), an international
humanitarian NGO based on the teachings of Islam, founded by Shaykh Hassan
Cisse in Senegal and the Main Representative of AAII to the Economic and Social
Council of the United Nations. During her career as a women’s health advocate
and international maternal and child health consultant, she developed and
directed programs for women with HIV/AIDS, alcohol and other drug addictions,
and worked to establish primary and reproductive health clinics in rural,
medically underserved communities in Africa and the Caribbean. Hajja Ashaki was
born in New York City in 1942 and took shahada in the Mosque of Islamic
Brotherhood in Harlem in 1969. Her political and human rights activism spans five
decades within the Civil Rights, Black Liberation, Anti-War, Anti-Apartheid, Anti-
Racism and Women’s Movements. An advocate for greater interreligious respect
and understanding, she most recently worked on the development of an Islamic
culture of peace and peacebuilding among Muslims and served as a community
educator and interfaith facilitator in Greater Boston. She holds a BA from Sarah
Lawrence College, an MA in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations from
Hartford Seminary, and continues her pursuit of sacred knowledge with Ahzari
scholar Shaykh Yasir Fahmy. She was a Muslim Peace Fellow sponsored by the
150 year old peace organization, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

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Dr. Samira I. Ibrahim is a researcher at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam. She has an academic background in both Water
Resources Engineering and Religious Studies. Recently she pursued a master
degree in Theology & Religion at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she
performed research on the religious coping strategies among Muslim political ex-
detainees in Egypt. During her earlier residence of twelve years in Cairo she also
managed to obtain several ijazāt in the different disciplines of Islamic & Arabic
studies.Her research interests include Islamic spiritual care, Islamic ethics, the
psychology of religion and religious inspired leadership.Currently she teaches
Psychology of Religion from an Islamic Perspective at the Islamic University of
Applied Sciences in Amsterdam as well, and assists with Emoena Netherlands:
Program for Leadership in a Multireligious Context.

Dr. Muhammad Tahir is the Head of Department of Islamic Studies at Riphah

International University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has been serving as an Assistant
Professor and mentor at the graduate and undergraduate level since August 2019.
Being Head, he has been administering the MPhil Islamic Studies and Life & Living
programs since April 2020. Dr. Tahir is also Founding Director of the Centre for
Islamic Psychology and Education (CIPE), Islamabad, Pakistan. He has done his
PhD Islamic Studies in December 2017 from the International Islamic University
Islamabad, Pakistan. His PhD dissertation is entitled “Development of Child’s
Personality in the light of Sunnah and Contemporary Psychology: An Analytical
and Comparative Study.” During his PhD tenure, he was hosted as a Visiting
Research Fellow from March 2015 to March 2017 at the School of Humanities,
Languages, and Social Science, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He has
been awarded an indigenous scholarship (2008-2014) for MPhil and PhD by the
HEC and IRSP scholarship for visiting fellow by the HEC and the Griffith Islamic
Research Unit. Dr. Tahir also holds Masters in Education (MEd) and the thesis is
entitled “Teaching Strategies used by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be
Upon Him): An Analytical Study.” He has presented research papers in national
and international conferences and published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
His research contributions emphasize the contemporary issues and ultimately has
positive impacts on the community’s individual, family, and social life. Previously,
he has served as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor (part-time) at three
universities in Pakistan i.e., International Islamic University Islamabad, National
University of Modern Languages Islamabad, and Fatima Jinnah Women University
Rawalpindi.

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Dr. Yusra Ahmad, MD, FRCPC, is a community & academic psychiatrist in Toronto.
She graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago and an MD from the
University of Toronto where she completed her residency in psychiatry in 2013.
She is affiliated with Women’s College Hospital and the University Health
Network. She is a Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Psychotherapy, Humanities &
Psychosocial Interventions at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Toronto. Dr. Ahmad created Mindfully Muslim after she witnessed the impact of
repetitive trauma on her community, beginning with 9/11 and culminating in the
Quebec City mosque shooting. Mindfully Muslim is an anti-oppressive, trauma-
informed, faith-based group therapy program that blends her interests in
mindfulness, neurobiology, poetry, self-help, psychotherapy and religion. It has
been adopted by Women’s Health in Women’s Hands and Health Access
Thorncliffe Park, two community health centres in Toronto. Because of this work,
Dr. Ahmad was honoured with the 2019 Ontario Psychiatric Association’s Breakout
Community Advocacy Award, Alhamdullilah. Dr. Ahmad loves to live in between
the lines because she believes a lot of power & beauty springs from these liminal
spaces. She cares deeply about people and their stories.

Salih Yucel
Associate Professor in Islamic Studies,Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation
Charles Sturt University/ Australian Catholic University

Salih Yucel got Bachelor of Islamic Divinity from the University of Ankara and
Master of Theology from the University of Sydney. He worked as a Muslim
Chaplain in Australia and then at Brigham and Women Hospital which is affiliated
health institutions of Harvard Medical School for 13 years. He completed his
doctorate at Boston University in 2007. His doctoral research was about “The
Effect of Prayer on Muslim Patients Well-being.” Dr Yucel worked as a lecturer
and senior lecturer at Centre for Religious Studies at Monash University between
2008-2014. Currently, he teaches at Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at
Charles Sturt University. He is also a part-time lecturer at ACU. He is the author
of four books, co-author of one book and number of articles and book chapters.

Insha Khan is an undergraduate student at California State University, Long Beach

studying communication with minors in public relations and fashion
merchandising. In her time at CSULB, she has been placed on the President’s
Honor List, has been recognized with the Exceptional Student Achievement Award
by the College of Liberal Arts, and has received the Luster E. Hauth Fellowship.
Currently, Insha is creating and managing content as a social media intern for the
Communication Studies Department. She has previously worked as a public
speaking consultant for the Hauth Center for Communication Skills. In 2018, Insha
completed her memorization of the Qur’an and she is now pursuing Islamic
seminary studies at the Institute of Knowledge.

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Imam Zubair Yousif is an Assistant Principal Researcher at ILM Foundation
Institute of Los Angeles, California and recently graduated from Hartford
Seminary, Connecticut with a Graduate Certificate in Muslim Community
Leadership. Previously, he obtained an MA in Islamic Studies from The Islamic
College/ Middlesex University, London. He has published with Islamic Writings;
the Student Journal of The Islamic College, London. Currently, Imam Zubair Yousif
is a chaplain with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Before migrating to the US, he
had practiced as a journalist in Ghana in both the print and electronic media after
graduating from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Public Relations and
Advertising. Imam Zubair has extensive experience with Muslim inmates having
been working with them in California, Mississippi, New York, and New Jersey. His
area of interest includes conflict resolution within the purview of religious
extremism and pastoral counseling of inmates to reduce recidivism.

Mujesira Neimarlija (Muyesira Neimarliya) is a 22 year old, fourth-year student of

the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a
member of the Youth Club called Tignum at the Nahla Center for Education and
Research. Mujesira works with children aged from 6 to 8 years old, young girls
and women in the field of Islamic education. She is the Student Coordinator for
International Cooperation at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo, and is one
of the coordinators of the Youth
Network of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Social network:
IG: neimarlija_mujesira
Facebook: Neimarlija Mujesira

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