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Muslim Women in America: Today's Scholars -- Tomorrow's Leaders
Photo courtesy of Fatina Abdrabboh |
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Date: Monday, 16 April 2007
Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT)
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Please note, this webchat will begin at 1300 GMT. This is one hour earlier than originally scheduled.
Fatina Abdrabboh, a graduate student of Islamic studies and international security at Harvard University, participated in a ten-day Department of State traveling speaker program in Niger last June to discuss her research on Islam, and life as a Muslim woman in America. Please join Abdrabboh for a USINFO webchat as she answers your questions on a variety of political and social issues related to America's Arab and Muslim communities. In addition to English, Abdrabboh speaks French and Arabic.
Guest Biography: At only 24 years of age, Fatina Abdrabboh is nonetheless said to be one of the most promising rising public intellectuals for the Arab and Muslim communities of the United States. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and is currently working on two concurrent graduate degrees, in Islamic studies and international security, at Harvard University. Her research work covers topics such as “Women & Authority: Who has it in Islam?” and “The Dynamics of the Black-Arab communities of Detroit." She is head of the Muslim Student Organization at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Abdrabboh has successfully used many venues to have her views heard on issues of concern to Arabs and Muslims, such as terrorism and the “Cartoon Controversy” in Europe. Her work has been published in newspapers such as the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor; she has appeared on national television such as on Dateline NBC; and she has been heard being interviewed on radio such as National Public Radio.
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