Assalamu Alaikum - Wa Alaikum Assalam: Initiating and

Transcription

Curriculum
2014
Assalamu Alaikum - Wa Alaikum Assalam:
Initiating and Reciprocating Peace
About our Theme
“As-Salamu Alaikum - Wa alaikum as-Salam.”
We say these words all the time, but what do they mean to us and to the person we're
greeting with them? MYC 2014 will focus on seeking a deeper understanding of these
words and how to live by them.
For our classes this week, the MYC Curriculum Team has developed several
applications of “Assalamu alaikum – Wa alaikum Assalam” as a topic of study and
contemplation for our campers. We imagine this as a progression, with a different subtheme focus for each day, building from the individual through various relationships and
finally to our relationship with God, the source of all peace. These classes will help us
explore the many ways of activating peace in our lives and take a close look at dealing
with obstacles to peace. By the end of the week, God-willing, as these words tumble
from our lips, they will also make us smile.
MONDAY
Peace in Ourselves
Introduction to Theme
Beginning a
week’s
exploration of
areas of
peace in our
lives, starting
with ourselves.
This year’s MYC theme is “Assalamu Alaikum-Wa Alaikum Assalam: Initiating and
Reciprocating Peace.” The first class session of the week should orient all our campers to
the deep significance of “salam” both as “peace” and as “surrender” as well as what it
means to greet each other with peace. Attention should be given to the spiritual
significance of “salam” and to God as the source of all peace.
Finding and maintaining Inner Peace
This class session will engage participants in looking inward in attaining a peaceful state.
This can include strategies to let go of stress, anger, fear, anxiety, etc. Attention to personal
and mental health issues can be included if appropriate.
Interactive Case Study/Role Play
This class will explore identity formation, knowing oneself, and being true to oneself. For
example, they might address the many challenges one can come across in asserting and
maintaining one’s identity across different environments (home, school, sports, clubs, work,
masajid, etc). Activities can also include exercises in self-discovery and thinking for
oneself through case studies and role plays or tools designed at self-assessment
(understanding yourself, your skills, strengths and weaknesses, desires, fears, goals).
MONDAY
Peace in Ourselves
Class 1
8 – 8:50 AM
Class 2
9 – 9:50 AM
Class 3
10 – 10:50 AM
Junior
Sakeena Mirza
Finding and Maintaining Inner Peace
Ronald Hassan
Arts & Crafts
Sakeena Mirza & Selected
Counselors
Junior High
Ronald Hassan
Sakeena Mirza
Interactive Class
Yusif Lee, Hanan Elshenawwy &
Selected Counselors
Senior
Sadiya Muqueeth
Subheen Razzaqui
Interactive Class
Subheen Razzaqui & Selected
Counselors
Senior
High
Amira Quraishi
Pursuit of Happyness - Positivity,
Contentment, and Certainty
Mona Ebrahim
Interactive Class
Mona Ebrahim & Selected
Counselors
Melissa Mani & Munir Shaikh
Peace: A Balance of Justice and Mercy
Todd Gallinger
Interactive Class
Hafsa Arain & Selected
Counselors
Peace: A Balance of Justice and Mercy
Todd Gallinger
Jihad Turk
Interactive Class
Jihad Turk
College
Adult
TUESDAY Peace in Inter-Personal Relationships
Moving
beyond the
individual to
building and
maintaining
strong
peaceful
relationships
with friends
and family
that our
campers can
practice during
the MYC week
as well as at
home in their
daily lives.
Peaceful relationships within the home
This class should give MYC campers some useful skills to build, and build upon, peaceful relationships
with everyone in their home (siblings, parents, spouse, extended family, etc.). This could involve things
like lessons in communication, forgiveness, compassion, support, and helpfulness. It could also give
attention to the sorts of things that can challenge peace inside the home, such as separation and divorce,
domestic abuse, mental and physical health challenges, all sorts of trauma, and a variety of external
pressures (unemployment, unstable living environment). Lessons of how peace was achieved and
maintained inside the Prophe’ts household could be a key part of this class.
Peaceful relationships outside the home
This class will address the relationships that our campers have with those outside of our homelife – such
as our friends, colleagues, teammates and coaches, school acquaintances, teachers, and bosses. This
class could focus on things like being an example of peaceful behavior and wishing others peace in all
these variety of situations, and how to do that. Attention can also be given to differences in Muslim vs.
non-Muslim vs. mixed environments and how to maintain peace in all these settings.
Focus on the interactive nature of the second part of our theme – the “Wa Alaikum Assalam” – and
thinking about how to truly and sincerely wish peace for the people we come into contact with in our lives.
This includes how to withhold and control our judgment and negative feelings toward others, especially
as we are wishing them peace. Also give some attention to body language and how we communicate to
others even without saying a word.
TUESDAY
Peace in Inter-Personal Relationships
Class 1
8 – 8:50 AM
Class 2
9 – 9:50 AM
Class 3
10 – 10:50 AM
Junior
Peaceful Relationships Within the Home
Sakeena Mirza
Peaceful Relationships Outside the Home
Ronald Hassan
Arts & Crafts
Sakeena Mirza & Selected Counselors
Junior
High
Peaceful Relationships Outside the Home:
Interfaith Communication Skills
Yusif Lee
Sakeena Mirza
Interactive Class
Subheen Razzaqui & Selected Counselors
Senior
Hafsa Arain
Yusif Lee
Interactive Class
Ronald Hassan, Munir Shaikh & Selected
Counselors
Senior
High
Striking the Balance: Between Positivity and
Passivity
Mona Ebrahim
Hafsa Arain
Interactive Class
Mona Ebrahim, Hanan Elshenawwy &
Selected Counselors
College
Munir Shaikh
Jihad Turk
International Muslim Activist organizing
Shahed Amanullah
Adult
International Muslim Activist organizing
Shahed Amanullah
Munir Shaikh
Jihad Turk
WEDNESDAY
Directing our
focus to
peace as it
relates to the
larger
community/
ies around
us.
Wednesday’s
focus is on
the Muslim
community.
Peace in Society
Peace in the mosque
This class will address questions like: What role should the mosque play in the life of a Muslim? Do
our mosques play that role effectively today? What obstacles are we creating for worshipers who
want to practice their faith in peace without being accosted by “morality police”? This can be an
opportunity for campers to examine their attitudes on the treatment of women, children, converts,
non-Muslims, and different ethnic groups at their own mosques. A discussion of the proper
methods of giving nasiha (advice) may be appropriate here.
Peace in the Muslim intellectual tradition
This class will draw upon Muslim history – examples of the Prophet (PBUH) as well as the insights
of scholars throughout the years -- to present campers with a variety of ways that peace is relevant
to sophisticated legal, social, and political discourses. Examples might include the diversity of
madhhab legal schools and how their scholars interacted with each other, illustrating how to
maintain peace even in the face of fundamental disagreements. Also relevant would be practical
lessons in how to achieve societal peace through attention to both justice and mercy.
This class should facilitate internal understanding of the issues, through such things as a role play
within a mosque setting, a debate, or some other real-life situation elaborating the ideas presented
in the first two classes.
WEDNESDAY
Peace in Society
Class 1
8 – 8:50 AM
Class 2
9 – 9:50 AM
Class 3
10 – 10:50 AM
Peace in the Mosque
Ronald Hassan
Peace in the Muslim Intellectual Tradition
Sakeena Mirza
Arts & Crafts
Sakeena Mirza &
Selected Counselors
Sakeena Mirza
Peace in the Mosque
Ronald Hassan
Interactive Class
Hanan Elshenawwy &
Selected Counselors
Senior
Peace in the Mosque: Learning How to Disagree
Agreeably – The Prophetic Model
Yusif Lee
Peace in the Muslim Intellectual Tradition:
Muslims in Global historical narrative
Subheen Razzaqui
Interactive Class
Yusif Lee & Selected
Counselors
Senior
High
Peace in the Muslim Intellectual Tradition: Muslims
in Global historical narrative
Subheen Razzaqui
Peace in the Mosque: Bringing back the
role of the Masjid as a Sheltering Peace
Mona Ebrahim
College
Interactive Class
Mona Ebrahim & Selected Counselors
Amira Quraishi
Peace in the Mosque
Jihad Turk & Hafsa
Arain
Amira Quraishi
Peace in the Mosque
Jihad Turk & Hafsa Arain
Interactive Class
Amira Quraishi
Junior
Junior High
Adult
Interactive Class
Mona Ebrahim &
Selected Counselors
THURSDAY
Directing our
focus to
peace as it
relates to the
larger
community/
ies around
us.
Thursday’s
focus is on
society
generally.
Peace in Society
Spreading peace through public service
This class will address the avenues of Muslim activism that can be used to spread peace in
society. Examples of this could be a discussion on organizing Muslim grassroots
movements for effective beneficial change in society (such as through healthcare initiatives,
crime prevention, civil rights), or non-traditional (beyond mosque and school building)
Muslim philanthropy that mark a new phase of American Muslim participation in civil society,
and can fund innovative public service projects.
Peace in the face of global conflicts/challenges
This class should address the challenges of responding to global threats to justice without
offending the Islamic inclination to peace that has been addressed in previous classes.
Some examples include MPAC’s “Safe Spaces” initiative, designed to counteract the pull of
violence to disgruntled Muslim youth, peaceful resistance struggles to oppressive
governments, and creative counter-terrorism measures by Muslims in coalition with others
around the world. Along the same lines, campers can study examples of (domestic and
international) activism that have succeeded (or failed) in peacefully achieving their objective.
The interactive class on this day might be a role play or case study of a challenging situation
in need of attention, drawing upon campers creativity to think about how to fill the need.
THURSDAY
Junior
Junior High
Senior
Senior High
College
Adult
Peace in Society
Class 1
8 – 8:50 AM
Class 2
9 – 9:50 AM
Class 3
10 – 10:50 AM
Spreading Peace Through Public
Service
Sakeena Mirza
Peace in the Face of Global Conflicts and
Challenges
Jihad Turk
Arts & Crafts
Sakeena Mirza & Selected
Counselors
Interactive Class
Hanan Elshenawwy & Selected
Counselors
Spreading Peace Through Public Service:
Muslim Social Media Ethics
Yusif Lee
Peace in the Face of Global
Conflicts and Challenges
Jihad Turk
Spreading Peace Through Public
Service: Muslim Social Media Ethics
Yusif Lee
Challenges
Ronald Hassan
Interactive Class
Hanan Elshenawwy, Subheen
Razzaqui & Selected
Counselors
Peace in the Face of Global Conflicts
and Challenges
Ronald Hassan
Spreading Peace Through Public Service:
Our Society, our Responsibility
Mona Ebrahim
Interactive Class
Mona Ebrahim, Hafsa Arain &
Selected Counselors
and Challenges: Counter-Terrorism and
Islam
Hamid Khan
Challenges: Responding to Global Threats
to Justice
Mohja Kahf
Conflicts and Challenges:
MPAC’s Safe Space initiative
Salam Al-Marayati
and Challenges: MPAC’s Safe Space
initiative
Salam Al-Marayati
Challenges: Counter-Terrorism and Islam
Hamid Khan
Conflicts and Challenges:
Responding to Global Threats
to Justice
Mohja Kahf
FRIDAY
Peace in the Divine
Finding and Maintaining Spiritual Awareness
From peace
within
ourselves and
with others,
we focus on
connecting to
God - the
source of all
peace.
This class will directly address means and types of spiritual awareness. This
could be done in a variety of ways - such as inspirational stories, commentary
on Quran or Seerah, or any mechanisms that will attune campers to how to
become more spiritually aware in their own lives.
Presence in Prayer
This class will get a bit more specific, focusing on one, characteristically
Muslim form of connecting to the divine: salat. We hope this second class will
give both basic as well as advanced information and insight about the
physicality of prayer and its significance, as well as connecting salat itself to
our overall theme of assalamu alaikum (such as the particular variations on
this phrase in the tashahud and the salamat at the very end of the salat).
Interactive classes on this day will likely involve exercises designed to attune
campers to how to notice the divine in the things around them – in nature, in
their lives and the possibility of using prayer to further connect to that divine.
FRIDAY
Peace in the Divine
Class 1
8 – 8:50 AM
Class 2
9 – 9:50 AM
Class 3
10 – 10:50 AM
Junior
Sakeena Mirza
Presence in Prayer
Ronald Hassan
Arts & Crafts
Sakeena Mirza &
Selected Counselors
Junior
High
Yusif Lee
Reading the Quran With Your Heart, The
Power of Dua and Getting Closer to
Allah”
Subheen Razzaqui
Interactive Class
Hanan Elshenawwy &
Selected Counselors
Senior
Reading the Quran With Your Heart, The
Power of Dua and Getting Closer to Allah”
Subheen Razzaqui
Finding and Maintaining Spiritual
Awareness
Yusif Lee
Interactive Class
Ronald Hassan &
Selected Counselors
Senior
High
Finding and Maintaining Spiritual Awareness:
Who’s your best friend?
Mona Ebrahim
Presence in Prayer: Salam through Salat
Mona Ebrahim
Interactive Class
Hamid Khan & Selected
Counselors
Interactive Class
Hamid Khan & Selected Counselors
Finding and Maintaining Spiritual
Awareness
Amira Quraishi
Presence in Prayer
Jihad Turk
Amira Quraishi
Presence in Prayer
Jihad Turk
Interactive Class
Munir Shaikh
College
Adult
Our Faculty
Principals
General Faculty
Elementary & Preschool:
Claire Alkouatli
Salam Al-Marayati
Junior & Junior High:
Sakeena Mirza
Senior and Senior High:
Sadiya Muqueeth
Shahed Amanullah
Hafsa Arain
Mona Ebrahim
Hanan Elshenawwy
Todd Gallinger
Hannah Kalinowski
Hamid Khan
Yusif Lee
Mubeena Mirza
Amira Quraishi
College and Adult:
Ronald Hassan
Subheen Razzaqui
Asifa Quraishi-Landes
Nushin Huq
Munir Shaikh
Interactive Classes:
Mohja Kahf
Jihad Turk
Zakariya Dehlawi
Extra-Curricular Education:
Melissa Mani
Claire Alkouatli
Claire Alkouatli is a writer, editor and educator based in Vancouver, BC. She is currently pursuing a Master's
degree in Human Learning, Development and Culture at the University of British Columbia and she recently
graduated from the Islamic Teacher Education Program (University of Toronto). Her research interests include
using qualitative methods to examine human development through the teaching/learning of Islamic material
and the overlap between sociocultural theory and Islamic pedagogies. After spending several years in the Arabian Gulf, she is working on a book entitled, Caravan of Strangers:
Travels through Islam. Her writings have appeared in diverse publications including the Globe and Mail,
Parabola magazine, Arabian Woman (Dubai), and Bangladesh Today. Her book “Islam” was published by
Benchmark Books in 2006.
During six years living in Saudi Arabia, she created one of the world's first mother and child playgroups in an
Islamic context and, along with four Saudi women, grew this playgroup into Enchanted Garden Enrichment
Center, an extracurricular activity center aimed at holistic child development that nurtures hundreds of children
every year.
Building upon this experience, and informed by her research into human development, learning and culture,
Claire is currently designing a play/performance-based enrichment program for Muslim children. Claire is
married to Syrian Creative Director, Saadi Alkouatli, and they have three young children.
Shahed Amanullah
A serial entrepreneur who has founded several Silicon Valley new media startups, Shahed
Amanullah currently serves as CEO & co-founder of LaunchPosse, a DC-based startup that helps
people leverage their social networks to shape and launch ideas for entrepreneurship. Prior to
starting LaunchPosse, Shahed served as Senior Advisor at the US Department of State, and also
worked closely with the White House and other government agencies on social entrepreneurship,
social media policy, combating online extremism, and fostering innovation.
Shahed also serves as CEO & founder of Halalfire, a producer of online content and market
research for global Muslim communities. He founded altmuslim.com and zabiha.com, and was also
co-founder and CEO of Relatia, a venture-backed mobile software company acquired in 2001.
Shahed began attending MYC in the 1990s, has served on the MYC Board of Directors, and now
regularly participates as a teacher, camp dad and member of the MYC Executive Committee.
Hafsa Arain
Hafsa Arain is an interfaith activist and writer who works in student services
and affairs for Bayan Claremont, an Islamic graduate school in Southern
California. Born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Chicago, she has a
bachelor's degree in English literature and religious studies and a master's
degree in Islamic Leadership. In the past, she has done interfaith work for a
nonprofit in Chicago called Interfaith Youth Core, where she worked to build
inter-religious cooperation at colleges and universities around the country. Also
a creative nonfiction writer, you can find her work in the Washington Post's On
Faith, CoLab Radio at MIT, and most recently at the high/low culture blog This
Recording.
Zakaria
Dehlawi
Zaki Dehlawi is a long-time camper, attending MYC since he was an infant. He
hails from the west coasts of Seattle and Jeddah.
Currently a PhD student in computer security at the University of Washington,
Zaki also works as a security engineering consultant at Security Innovation.
Mona Ebrahim
Mona Ebrahim is a writer, educator, visual artist, humorist, and community activist. Focusing her life
career on the deep study and reflection of Islam and drive to positively reach others, Mona spent
almost 20 years teaching youth and adults, public speaking, and using her visual arts and visionary
skills to work to improve Islamic organizations, schools, masajid, and other projects in both Southern
and Northern California.
A Film, TV, & Video Graduate from University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on film theory
and the use of film to create the “other”, Mona also freelances in writing, photography, and graphic
design. She recently published a humorous work, “101 Reasons Why I’m Glad I Wear Hijab!”, and is
currently working on future scholastic works and ongoing speaking engagements.
Mona went to MYC as a youth, and has been bringing her kids (all four of them!) for the past two
years. They’ve all agreed to make it their learning and fun ritual every summer (insha’Allah)!
Todd Gallinger
Todd Gallinger is an attorney and activist. He currently works as the director of chapter development for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest American
Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. Todd has a B.A. in religious studies from U.C.
Santa Barbara and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He is
currently pursuing an M.A. in religion with an emphasis in Islamic leadership at the
Claremont School of Theology / Bayan Claremont. Prior to joining CAIR, Todd was in the private practice of law in Southern California. He
represented numerous small businesses and nonprofits, including religious and interfaith
institutions. Todd served on the board of the New Horizons School in Irvine and was
president of the CAIR-CA PAC. In 2008 he ran for Irvine City Council, where he
received over 22,000 votes and came within 2 percent of all votes cast of his incumbent
opponent. Nushin Huq
Nushin Huq is a Houston-based correspondent for Bloomberg
BNA. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the
University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is
also the weekend school principal for The Woodlands Islamic
Center as well as a co-leader in her daughter's girl scout troop.
Nushin and her husband, Ammar, decided to make MYC an
annual family tradition when their four-year old daughter
proclaimed that it was the "best vacation" ever!
Mohja Kahf
Born in Syria, Mohja Kahf immigrated to the U.S. as a child with her parents in 1971.
Shortly after that she attended her first MYC. Today she is a member of the Syrian
Nonviolence Movement, a group established inside Syria in April 2011 by the peaceful
protesters who then were leading the Syrian Revolution. Mohja's novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Perseus, 2006) is a humorous "new classic"
about a girl growing up Muslim in America. The novel, and Dr Kahf's poetry book E-mails
from Scheherazad (University of Florida, 2003), are taught in universities in the U.S. and
the Middle East ("but where is my movie offer?" Mohja keeps wondering). Mohja, who recently married an Albanian Kosovar, has been a professor at the University
of Arkansas for nineteen years. Mohja first came to MYC as a four year old and has
attended MYC as camper, counselor, teacher, and camp parent. Hannah
Kalinoski
Hannah is a University of Washington student studying
Microbiology and Sociology. As part of her Microbiology
career, she also works in a lab helping to develop an HIV
and a universal Influenza vaccines.
Hannah has attended MYC as a camper, counselor, and
staff; and is looking forward to this year's events. Hamid Khan
Hamid Khan is a Senior Program Officer at the Rule of Law Center with the U.S. Institute of
Peace (USIP) where he works on rule of law issues throughout the Islamic world including
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Nigeria. He is also a professorial lecturer of Islamic law
at the George Washington School of Law, and an instructor for USIP's Academy for International
Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, where he teaches a course on Islamic Law. Previously,
he worked as Rule of Law Adviser in USIP's Kabul office.
Khan has advised on Islamic thought and legal matters around the world including at the United
Nations, the NATO School, the U.S.-Islamic World Forum and in various interagency capacities
with the U.S. Government including the U.S. Navy's Postgraduate School, the National Defense
University, the Marine Corps University, the Judge Advocate General's School, USAID, and the
State Department. He has also served as an advisor to NATO/ISAF on issues of Islamic law,
counterinsurgency, and empowering women under Islamic law and theology and with U.S. Special
Operations Command. While in private legal practice, Khan served as counsel of record for five
detainees held at the U.S. Naval Facility at Guantanamo Bay.
Yusif Lee
Yusif is a Norwegian American who was raised in a devout Christian family in Washington State. His
conversion to Islam in 2001 rekindled his passion for reclaiming the relevance of religion in the modern
era. After getting married and starting his family he continued to follow his dream of becoming a
religious scholar by pursuing degrees in Comparative Religion and Philosophy at UCLA. His research
interests include Islamic epistemology and pedagogical methods as well as the reintroduction of
informal logic and philosophy into Islamic education as a means to combat the increasingly sophisticated
attacks on the religious, intellectual, social, legal and political foundations of Islam.
He has been a vital contributor to the Muslim communities of Seattle, Louisville and has recently
accepted the Youth Group Coordinator position for the Muslim Youth Group at the Islamic Center of
Southern California (ICSC). Most known for his youth advocacy and interfaith work at the Islamic Center
of Southern California where, under the tutelage of Dr. Maher Hathout, he successfully launched the
Muslim Intellectual Training (MIT) Program in 2008. This program is aimed at providing the underserved
middle school youth with authentic Islamic teachings to facilitate a seamless integration of Islamic and
American principles to form their Muslim American identities. To further his youth advocacy he is
planning on launching a blog called Millennial Muslims which is committed to addressing the pressing
issues facing the Muslim youth of today.
Mubeena
Mirza
Mubeena first came to MYC as a toddler and has since then attended as a
student then counselor and now she is excited to join as staff. She holds a
bachelors degree in Psychology and Middle Eastern studies from UCLA. Her
interests are educating, parenting, gardening, and enriching her community.
Mubeena currently teaches Sunday school to preschool and elementary aged
children. She looks forward to continuing the MYC tradition with her two
children Aliyya and Kareem. Melissa Mani
Melissa Mani is a natural linguist/teacher. She is fluent in English, Spanish and
Italian, and continues to pursue classical Arabic and Islamic theology at
Zaytuna College. Since her days in high school, Melissa has been and active
member of every community she was a part of - volunteering with the Santa
Barbara Interfaith Initiative and the Boys and Girls Club for three years,
respectively. During her first year at Santa Barbara City College, Melissa
initiated the Muslim Student Association and cross-coordinated events with
UCSB. Growing up in Santa Barbara has naturally cultivated a love for the
outdoors.
Melissa enjoys reading, poetry, traveling, doing yoga, swimming, and often
takes on hiking trails barefoot. MYC 2011 was Melissa's first year as a
counselor, but she quickly became a part of the MYC family. She looks forward
to having another beautiful week at MYC, Insha'Allah.
Sakeena Mirza
Sakeena attended her first camp when she was less than a year old and
was a regular attendee of MYC throughout the 80s and early 90s. She
is glad to back this year to share the experience with her two sons, Bilal
and Suhayb.
Sakeena works in the healthcare management industry and is involved in
various education and social welfare initiatives. She is a trained
Montessori elementary teacher and helps run Explore Islam, a weekend
school program that focuses on helping children develop their love for
Allah (swt) and undertake a lifelong journey of building thisrelationship
through knowledge, devotion and service.
Sadiya Muqueeth
Sadiya Muqueeth, a Public Health Prevention Service Fellow with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coordinates and manages the
Preventing Substance Exposed Pregnancies Coalition. She earned her
bachelors in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University, after which
she worked as a research assistant in CDC’s foodborne outbreaks and
surveillance teams. She then served as a rural health volunteer with Peace
Corps in Paraguay. While earning her Masters of Public Health from
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Sadiya worked on a community
based participatory research study on physical activity and a student
consultant group focused on improving a sexual and reproductive health
education program for Latino youth. Outside of the office, Sadiya enjoys
spending time with friends and family, cooking, and doing outdoor activities. Subheen Razzaqui
Subheen Razzaqui received an MA in Teaching and Curriculum
Development from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She regularly presents on topics related to Islam and the Middle East
region for a wide variety of groups including Primary Source, the
Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
University and Educators for Social Responsibility. In addition to her
public education efforts, Subheen Razzaqui is a history teacher at
Newton North High School, Newton, MA.
Amira Quraishi
Amira Quraishi is the Muslim Chaplain at Wellesley College. She
attended her first MYC at age 8 months and has attended almost every
camp since then. She learned how to manage MYC's counseling
program from her mom, MYC co-founder Iffat Quraishi, and has been
running it for twenty years. The academic approach to Islamic
intellectual history at MYC prompted Amira to get two Masters
degrees: in Middle East Studies & Religious Studies. The easy approach
to American Islam at MYC prompted her to love Islam as inspiration
and contentment. She loves the feeling of community at MYC, the
laughter and open discussions there. She continues to be involved
because her two daughters now love it too!
Asifa Quraishi-Landes
Asifa is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teachers courses in
American constitutional law and Islamic law. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2009
Carnegie Scholar, recognized in both academic and Muslim community circles for her expertise on
Islamic law and comparative legal theory as well as women's rights issues. She holds a doctorate
from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School and the University of
California (Berkeley and Davis).
Asifa has been actively involved with the founding and leadership of a number of organizations,
and she is the eldest daughter of Marghoob and Iffat Quraishi, the founders of the Muslim Youth
Camp, and has attended every single MYC since she was born! These days, she is joined at MYC
by her husband (Matthew Quraishi-Landes), son (Zekky) and daughter (Menna), and new son (Laiq)
and she is proud to be part of the team that keeps MYC a vibrant and inspirational part of the
American Muslim experience. This year, she is Head of Curriculum and Chair of the MYC Board of
Directors.
Munir Shaikh
Munir grew up in southern California and is an academic, public educator
and education technologist. He has an M.A. in Islamic Studies from UCLA,
specializing in Muslim Spain, and has studied advanced Arabic in Fes and
Cairo. He is a director of the Institute on Religion and Civic Values (IRCV), a
non-profit that provides scholarly consulting on teaching about world
history, cultures and religions in K-12 and public education. He periodically
leads study tours to southern Spain and Morocco through IslamiCity. He is an
Adjunct Professor of Religion at Orange Coast College, and at the new
multi-faith Claremont Lincoln University.
Munir attended MYC as a camper in the late 1970s and early 80s, served
as a counselor in the late 80s and early 90s, and has since been involved in
organizing the camp as a counselor, teacher, and board member.
Jihad Turk
Jihad Turk is the President of Bayan Claremont, a new Islamic graduate
school at Claremont School of Theology. Previously, he served as
Director of Religious Affairs at the Islamic Center of Southern
California. His field of research focuses on Islamic Law with an
emphasis on usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) as well as theology.
His current interests also include identity formation in the AmericanMuslim community, interfaith relations, Islamic reform movements, and
community leadership and development with a focus on youth. He has a
bachelor's degree in History and Arabic from U.C. Berkeley and a
master's in Islamic Law and Arabic from U.T. Austin. Jihad has been
attending camp since childhood in the 1970s.

Assalamu Alaikum - Wa Alaikum Assalam: Initiating and

Transcription

Similar documents

EVOLUSI KONSEP KESELAMATAN

FAMACO Publishers, LLC

Offering of AED 550,000,000 Ordinary Shares through an Initial

arifin ilham

Darul Arqam Southwest School

view our program.

Itineraries in the Muslim Mediterranean, 1350

Midamar - Truebell

Executive Director: Alia Hogben

a Therapeutic Strategy to Target c-Myc