I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding sponsored a panel discussion reflecting on the book "I Speak for Myself." The book is a collection of 40 personal essays written by American Muslim women under the age of 40, all of whom were born and raised in the US, and is a showcase of the diversity found in American Islam. The panel was moderated by Hadia Mubarak, and panel members included Saliqa Khan, Yusra Tekbali, and Asma Uddin.

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Hadia Mubarak is an assistant professor of religious studies at Guilford College. Previously, Mubarak taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Davidson College. Mubarak completed her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Georgetown University, where she specialized in modern and classical Qurʾanic exegesis, Islamic feminism, and gender reform in the modern Muslim world.

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Asma T. Uddin is currently an expert advisor on religious liberty to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Inclusive America Project Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and senior scholar at the Freedom Forum Institute. She is also a Berkley Center research fellow. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Uddin subsequently served as counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; director of strategy for the Center for Islam and Religious Freedom in Washington, DC; and as a fellow with the Initiative on Security and Religious Freedom at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. In addition to her expertise in religious liberty, Uddin writes and speaks on gender and Islam, and she is the founding editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com. She can be reached at asmauddin@gmail.com.

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