Please join us for the intrafaith Ramadan gathering and lectures on via the internet on Saturday, April 25, 20120 starting at 6:00 PM.
The program includes: Lectures by Dr. Hatem Bazian, Dr. Babak Ayazifar and dua Iftetah.
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Biographies
Dr. Hatem Bazian is a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. In addition, Prof. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic Law and Society, Islam in America: Communities and Institutions, De-Constructing Islamophobia and Othering of Islam, Religious Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. In addition to Berkeley, Prof. Bazian served as a visiting Professor in Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California 2001-2007 and adviser to the Religion, Politics and Globalization Center at UC Berkeley.
In Spring 2009, Prof. Bazian founded at Berkeley the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam and Muslims. Prof. Bazian in Spring 2012 launched the Islamophobia Studies Journal, which is published bi-annually through a collaborative effort between the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California at Berkeley, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative for the School of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University; the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, and Zaytuna College.
Dr. Babak Ayazifar emigrated from Iran as a teenager. Upon graduation from Notre Dame High School in Riverside, he pursued his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He then moved to the Northeast for his graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Br. Babak has been a member of our ICCNC community since 2005, when his family moved from Massachusetts to the San Francisco Bay Area to join the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.
Since becoming a father of two girls, his passion for teaching has expanded beyond the confines of engineering and computer science, and into the realm of Islamic education for children. As part of a small team of Muslims—and in collaboration with the Imam of a local Islamic center—he has been working for the past several months to revise the elementary school Islamic curriculum.