Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a Power of Diversity Lecture Series event Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom.
Homayra Ziad from InterFaith America will present “Muslim/Arab Identity and Islamophobia.”
About the speaker
Homayra Ziad is director of campus partnerships at Interfaith America and a longstanding interfaith practitioner and educator. After receiving her doctorate in Islamic Studies at Yale University, Ziad served as assistant professor of Islam at Trinity College in Hartford and then scholar of Islam at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, a Baltimore interfaith organization. Most recently, she was senior lecturer in Islamic Studies and a community-engaged teaching fellow at Johns Hopkins University, receiving JHU’s teaching award and supporting religious and other diversity efforts on campus. Ziad also served as board president of the ACLU of Maryland. For two decades, she has co-created projects that connect religion with the arts, public health, and mental health and supported educators, activists, artists and religious leaders in navigating pluralism and fostering networks of social change. She was founding co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group and is co-editor of Words to Live By: Sacred Sources for Interreligious Engagement (Orbis Press, 2018). Ziad writes for academic and popular venues, and consults for film and media.