Aisha ala Dawiyya

Nura Amantullah Jeter

Sarah  Sayeed

Dominka Bennacer

Malika Rusdan

Khalid Latif

Dalia Mahmoud

Robina Niaz

Hasan Chugtai

Hasan Johnson

Abdellatif Cristillo

Moushumi Khan

Musa Abdul Salaam

Amir al Islam

Adem Carroll

Imam Samer Raey

Imam Shamsi Ali

Faiza Ali

Aliya Latif

Syed Meesam Rizvi

Moe Razvi

Azeem Khan

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Dominika Bennacer is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Performance Studies at New York University. Before completing her M.A. in Performance Studies at NYU in 2006, she earned a B.A. degree in Theatre Studies specializing in Eastern European experimental theatre.  She is currently working as the Associate Curator of the Year of Grotowski/New York festival. Her research areas include immigration, human rights discourse, activism, quotidian performances of cultural, ethnic and religious identity, and embodied practices in Islamic orthopraxy. Her dissertation project investigates the wide-ranging ramifications of the administration’s domestic ‘war on terror,’ by tracing the trajectory of the post-9/11 immigrant experience: from special registration, racial profiling, discrimination, to detentions and deportations of Muslim, South Asian and Arab immigrants.

 ABDELLATIF LOUIS CRISTILLO

Muslims in New York City

Formal and non-formal religious education among Muslim diaspora communities in America

The sociology of religious and secular education in the Middle East and the Muslim world

Education and development in the Muslim world

Louis Cristillo is the principal investigator for the Muslim Youth in NYC Public School Project at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Research for this three-year study sponsored by the Ford Foundation will examine what role religiosity plays in shaping the civic and religious identities, attitudes and behavior of Muslim youth in public schools, especially in the post-9/11 environment. In addition, Dr. Cristillo is the project coordinator for Columbia University’s Muslims in NYC Project, a groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, also sponsored by the Ford Foundation, exploring the complex issues of Muslim identity and community building in New York City.

Resources by this expert

§                                 “The Changing Arab New York Community” in A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City (Syracuse University, 2002)

§                                 “Knowledge and Power at a Muslim School in New York City,” paper presented at the annual convocation of the Council of Anthropology and Education, and at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, California

§                                 “Transcendent Transnationalism: Religiosity and Ethnicity at a Private Muslim Day School in New York City,” paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association annual conference, San Francisco, California

§                                 “The Religious Self: Individual and Collective Identity Among Muslim New Yorkers,” paper presented at the Muslim Communities in NYC Project Conference, Columbia University

Tel. (212) 678-6623
Email: lfc12@columbia.edu

Moushumi M. Khan

Specialities:

Islamic Law & Justice, Civic Engagement, Status Issues in the Contemporary world, Civil Liberties and Terrorism, What is a Moderate Muslim?

Moushumi Khan is an attorney and business consultant in private practice in New York City. Since February 2001 Ms. Khan has been in solo legal practice concentrating on corporate and civil rights law.

Ms. Khan is a leading emerging voice on civil liberties, religious accommodation, and interfaith relations. She has advocated for the South Asian and Muslim American communities on post 9/11 civil rights concerns, including the National Security Entry and Exit Registration Program and racial profiling. She has served on Advisory Committees at the Council on Foreign Relations on immigration, national security and public diplomacy, and participated in drafting the Council Special Report “A New Beginning: Strategies for a More Fruitful Dialogue with the Muslim World.”

Ms. Khan is a co-founder and President of the Muslim Bar Association of New York and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has won numerous awards for her community service. Ms. Khan is also an active participant in public diplomacy efforts involving the United States and the immigrant community.

Ms. Khan earned her J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996 and received an A.B. degree in Critical Social Thought, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College in 1993. She was awarded a Certificate in General Course in the Government Department of the London School of Economics in 1991, where she did her junior year abroad. Ms. Khan is admitted to practice law in New York.

University of Michigan Law School, JD, 1996;
Mount Holyoke College, BA, Critical Social Thought, 1993;
London School of Economics, Government, General Course Certificate, 1992 (Junior Year Abroad).

Law Offices of Moushumi M. Khan, Attorney, 2001 – present After tying the knot with her husband in early 2001, Moushumi decided to fly solo in her professional career by establishing Jisir Consulting. Moushumi purposefully choose to name her company “Jisir” because it means “bridge” in the Arabic language. Serving as a “jisir” between the misunderstood Muslim community and the mainstream American community, Moushumi’s legal consulting provides companies with preventive, management, and crisis mediation strategies between it and its Muslim employees and clients. These days, Moushumi is routinely invited to speak about her experiences as a female Muslim lawyer in America at various venues such as churches, synagogues, law schools, and conferences.

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Aisha H.L. al-Adawiya
Specialities:
Women’s Inclusion: in Mosque and Community; Muslim Women in History and Tradition; African American experience; Spirituality; Immigration/Indigenous issues
 
Aisha al-Adawiya is the founder and executive director of Women in Islam, an organization of Muslim women which focuses on human rights and social justice. Ms. al-Adawiya organizes and participates in conferences, symposia and other forums on Islam, Gender Equity, Conflict Resolution, and Cross-Cultural Understanding.  She also represents Muslim women’s Non-Governmental Organizations at United Nations forums. Ms. Al-Adawiya coordinates Islamic input for the Preservation of the Black Religious Heritage Documentation Project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  She also serves as a consultant to numerous interfaith organizations and documentary projects on the Muslim American experience. Additionally, she serves on the boards of numerous organizations related to the interests of the global Islamic community.  Ms. al-Adawiya is a guest host and producer of Tahrir, WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York City.

Nurah-Rosalie P. Jeter Amat’ullah

Specialities: Women’s Inclusion: in Mosque and Community; Family Issues; HIV, Stigma and Health;