Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Muslim/Arab Identity and Islamophobia Featuring Homayra Ziad, PhD InterFaith America - Oct. 30, 2024 at 12:30 PM

Muslim/Arab Identity and Islamophobia Featuring Homayra Ziad, PhD. InterFaith America
October 30, 2024
12:30-2:00 pm
Tinkham Veale University Center Senior
Classroom

Dr. Homayra Ziad is Director of Campus Partnerships at Interfaith America and a longstanding interfaith practitioner and educator. After receiving her doctorate in Islamic Studies at Yale University, Homayra served as Assistant Professor of Islam at Trinity College in Hartford and then Scholar of Islam at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, a Baltimore interfaith organization. Most recently, she was Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies and a community-engaged teaching fellow at Johns Hopkins University, receiving JHU’s teaching award and supporting religious and other diversity efforts on campus. Homayra also served as Board President of the ACLU of Maryland. For two decades, she has co-created projects that connect religion with the arts, public health, and mental health and supported educators, activists, artists, and religious leaders in navigating pluralism and fostering networks of social change. She was founding co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group and is co-editor of Words to Live By: Sacred Sources for Interreligious Engagement (Orbis Press, 2018). Homayra writes for academic and popular venues, and consults for film and media.

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