On Saturday, April 1, 2023, at 7:00 PM ICCNC will host its annual Ramadan Open House and Iftar sharing event. The purpose of the event is to bring the greater community and neighbors together to break bread and share in a conversation about Islam and Muslims in the spirit of friendship, compassion, and generosity.

The Open House offers the opportunity for guests to attend an engaging, interactive talk, socialize with their Muslim neighbors, and share in a traditional fast-breaking dinner known as iftar.

Program: Quranic recitation and translation, lecture about Ramadan by Br. Ahmad Rashid Salim, question and answers session, congregational sunset (Maghreb) prayer, and Iftar.

Biography: Ahmad Rashid Salim (احمد راشد سليم) is a doctoral student in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California – Berkeley. His research interests include Persian mystical literature and their epistemologies of Islam. His work attempts to re-read texts as sites of spiritual exegesis, poetics, and socio-political-literary critique. Furthermore, he studies the history, culture, and literature of modern Afghanistan and looks to interrogate and complicate prevalent notions around literary independence, peripheries of language, and imagined pasts in the Persianate world. His book Islam Explained was published by Rockridge Press.