Please join us on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, at 7:00 PM on Zoom to celebrate Imam Ali’s (AS) birthday. The guest speaker for this celebration is Dr. Hossein Kamaly, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Imam Ali Chair for Shi’i Studies at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT. Please click here to join the Zoom Meeting.

The program includes Quranic recitation, lecture in Farsi “از علی آموز اخلاص عمل”, music, and Zoom breakout rooms to discuss the lecture.

Dr. Kamaly has a Master’s and Ph.D., both in History, from Columbia University. He is the author of two monographs, God & Man in Tehran (Columbia University Press, 2018) and the forthcoming A History of Islam in 21 Women (Oneworld Publications), as well as many journal articles in both English and Persian.

Dr. Kamaly has taught in New York City for many years. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Barnard College and Columbia University from 2007-2017. He has also taught at the City University of New York, Hunter College, and Brooklyn College.