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The Future of Work in the Lehigh Valley series Sponsored by Venture X Bethlehem  VIDEO VERSION HERE Get in touch with Lehigh Valley with Love Manal Omar is founder of Across Red Lines which is dedicated to women's leadership through accessing life force energy & deeper understanding of rights through a faith lens. Manal designed & led multiple development & training projects in the Middle East and Africa, & provided media & policy support on youth & gender on a global scale. According to the Huffington Post, Manal Omar is a Fellow with the Truman National Security Project who serves on the boards of IREX and AltMuslimah.org. She is the founder of #AcrossRedLines dialogue series and Safina Fellowship for Muslim women. Manal Served as the Associate Vice-President for the Middle East and Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. Manal has over fifteen years working in the field of women's rights, peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, and development. She is also a member of the board for IREX, a nonprofit global education and development organization. She is also an altMuslimah Advisory Board Member - an online media platform that is wholly dedicated to stories and commentary on gender-in-Islam from the male and female, Muslim and non-Muslim perspectives. Manal is a former fellow for Foreign Policy Interrupted, and is currently a Truman National Security Project fellow. She is dedicated to creating a safe space for dialogue on current events in the Muslim and Arab world on identity, civil society, and women's rights. She was named among Top 500 World's Most Influential Arabs by Arabia Business Power in 2011 and 2012, and among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by Georgetown University and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in 2009. In 2007, Islamic Magazine named her one of the ten young visionaries shaping Islam in America. ----- It's safe to say I am honred to have Manal on the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast and I encourage you to learn more about Across Red Lines at acrossredlines.com Thank you to Venture X for making this interview and series "the future of the Lehigh Valley Workforce" possible! If you'd like to get in touch with us about sponsorship opportunities, email info@lehighvalleywithlovemedia.com or hit up our show notes. Thank you to Zeptepi Creative for the video featured in this podcast episode. ------- If you'd like to learn more about the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast and the opportunities we can provide through sponsorship and collaboration, be sure to reach us at info@lehighvalleywithlovemedia.com or through our various social media channels. The Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast is everything Lehigh Valley. Get in touch! Thank you to our sponsors! Burke Insurance Agency  Michael Bernadyn of RE/MAX Real Estate Venture X - Get all of our links here. - Subscribe to the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast. - Want to be a guest on the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast? Watch the video episode here or below.

Ramadan #HistoricMuslimah​ #8: "Malalai Maiwand" | Did you know that Malala was named after a famous Pashtun Muslim woman who recited poetry as she fought in battle against the British colonizers? Today, our Khateebah Sabina Khan-Ibarra, a Pashtun-Pakistani-American poet and writer herself, introduces us to this amazing Muslim woman from Islamic history. For more uplifting spiritual wisdom from Khateebah Sabina Khan-Ibarra, watch her past khutbah at The Women's Mosque of America below! "Grief, Loss, & Divorce + Interracial Marriage" - Bayan by Sabina Khan-Ibarra https://youtu.be/ahPj6OZdqeg​   D O N A T E The Women's Mosque of America is a volunteer-run, 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Make a tax-deductible donation today: womensmosque.com/donate B I O Sabina Khan-Ibarra is the founder of Muslimah Montage, a platform for Muslim women to tell their own stories. Sabina and her website, Muslimah Montage, have been featured on Buzzfeed, The National, The Chicago Monitor, and NBC News. Sabina is also an assistant editor at AltMuslimah and GiveLight Foundation. She is the Member Development Chair at MuslimARC, an organization that addresses and combats intra-Muslim racism. In 2011, to commemorate the loss of her young son, Sabina created Ibrahim's Tree, an internet website devoted to stories on dealing with grief. She also writes and speaks about grief in Muslim communities. Her work has been published on BlogHer, Huffington Post, ISNA Horizons, InCulture Magazine, AltMuslimah, Love InshAllah, Patheos (AltMuslim), Brown Girl Magazines, and many other outlets.   S T A Y C O N N E C T E D Do you want to find out about The Women's Mosque of America's upcoming women-led & co-ed events? Sign up for our newsletter here: https://us9.campaign-archive.com/home...​   A B O U T The Women's Mosque of America is the nation's first women-led Muslim house of worship and a registered 501(c)3 non-profit. The Women's Mosque of America strives to uplift the entire Muslim community by empowering Muslim women and girls through more direct access to Islamic scholarship and leadership. The Women's Mosque of America provides a safe space for women to feel welcome, respected, and actively engaged within the Muslim Ummah. It complements existing mosques, offering opportunities for women to grow, learn, and gain inspiration to spread throughout their respective communities. The Women's Mosque of America provides women-led Friday jumma'a services for women and children (including boys 12 and under) once a month in Southern California. In addition, The Women's Mosque of America provides programming, events, and classes open to both men and women that aim to increase community access to female Muslim scholars and female perspectives on Islamic knowledge and spirituality.   F O L L O W U S Instagram: @womensmosque Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WomensMosque​ Twitter: @womensmosque

What a wonderful conversation with a brilliant Mayor and Professor, Sadaf Jaffer. A caring and empathetic person. We need more people like her who are a gift for our country and a role model for young girls and boys all over the world. To learn more about her, visit her website: https://www.sadafjaffer.com/ Bio: Sadaf Jaffer is a scholar, activist, and elected official. Dr. Jaffer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where she teaches courses on South Asian, Islamic, and Asian American Studies. She has published articles in the Journal of Women's History, as well as the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Huffington Post, and Altmuslimah blogs. Dr. Jaffer is also the mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey where she has focused her administration on good governance and increased transparency, communications, diversity, and inclusivity. LINKEDIN: SADAF JAFFER, PHD - FACEBOOK: SADAF JAFFER - TWITTER: @SADAFJAFFER - INSTAGRAM: @SADAFJAFFER - EMAIL: SADAF.JAFFER@GMAIL.COM *Remember to subscribe, share, rate and review. Let me know what are you doing, thinking, and feeling during these challenging times. Thank you. Shua - شعا ع www.lightupwithshua.com http://bit.ly/2nc9tZM - Youtube channel https://goo.gl/rf3HQ9 - The Groton Channel http://apple.co/2BteyA3 - iTunes https://goo.gl/dWpvLF - Instagram Available on iHeartradio, Tunein Radio, Spotify, Castbox, Facebook, Instagram, Lindedin, and Twitter. Copyright © 2017-2020 lightupwithshua All Rights Reserved - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

What a wonderful conversation with a brilliant Mayor and Professor, Sadaf Jaffer. A caring and empathetic person. We need more people like her who are a gift for our country and a role model for young girls and boys all over the world. She is the Mayor of Montgomery Township , New Jersey Supporting other candidates and creating space for other people How she balances her Mayoral work and her teaching at Princeton University Work life balance Her challenges as a child of immigrant, woman of color and a Muslim Her parenting style To learn more about her, visit her website:  https://www.sadafjaffer.com/ Bio: Sadaf Jaffer is a scholar, activist, and elected official. Dr. Jaffer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where she teaches courses on South Asian, Islamic, and Asian American Studies. She has published articles in the Journal of Women's History, as well as the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Huffington Post, and Altmuslimah blogs. Dr. Jaffer is also the mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey where she has focused her administration on good governance and increased transparency, communications, diversity, and inclusivity.  Mayor Jaffer has been especially involved in work to combat prejudice and build connections throughout the community. In her first year on Township Committee she founded Montgomery Mosaic, a group allied with the national Not In Our Town (NIOT) movement.  She serves on the board of directors for The New Agenda, an organization that promotes women's economic empowerment and combats sexual harassment and sexual assault. She is on the advisory board of Inspiring South Asian American Women (ISAAW), a group dedicated to encouraging civic engagement among South Asian American women in New Jersey. She is also on the advisory board of ARTE: Art and Resistance through Education, a non-profit that promotes human rights education and youth development through the arts. - LINKEDIN: SADAF JAFFER, PHD - FACEBOOK: SADAF JAFFER - TWITTER: @SADAFJAFFER - INSTAGRAM: @SADAFJAFFER - EMAIL: SADAF.JAFFER@GMAIL.COM *Remember to subscribe, share, rate and review. Let me know what are you doing, thinking, and feeling during these challenging times. Thank you. Shua - شعا ع www.lightupwithshua.com http://bit.ly/2nc9tZM - Youtube channel https://goo.gl/rf3HQ9 - The Groton Channel http://apple.co/2BteyA3 - iTunes https://goo.gl/dWpvLF - Instagram Available on iHeartradio, Tunein Radio, Spotify, Castbox, Facebook, Instagram, Lindedin, and Twitter. Copyright © 2017-2020 lightupwithshua All Rights Reserved - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Check out our latest interview with, Asma Uddin, the founder of altMuslimah and the author of the book, "When Islam is not a Religion". The book takes a look at religious freedom in the United States through the prism of attacks on the constitutional rights of American Muslims. We discuss what motivated her to write on this topic and the reason why she chose the title for her book.

September 24, 2014 | What are the most pressing issues at the intersection of faith and gender, and how can women of different faiths and views derive strength and meaning from their respective religions? A conference cosponsored by the the new web magazine altFem (from the founders of altMuslimah.com and altCatholicah.com), the Berkley Center’s project on Women, Religion, and the Family, and the World Faiths Development Dialogue explored these important questions. Panel discussions focused on: an examination and reframing of feminism to accommodate religious traditions; gender norms in religious dating and marriage; and achieving work-life balance among working mothers. Asma Uddin & Ashley McGuire, co-founders, altFem Magazine Katherine Marshall, executive director, World Faiths Development Dialogue and senior fellow, Berkley Center Aisha Rahman, executive director, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights (moderator) Neylan McBaine, founder, The Mormon Women Project and author of Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact Christy Vines, executive director, Center for Women, Faith & Leadership, Institute for Global Engagement Shahed Amanullah, CEO & co-founder of LaunchPosse Eve Tushnet, author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith

September 24, 2014 | What are the most pressing issues at the intersection of faith and gender, and how can women of different faiths and views derive strength and meaning from their respective religions? A conference cosponsored by the the new web magazine altFem (from the founders of altMuslimah.com and altCatholicah.com), the Berkley Center’s project on Women, Religion, and the Family, and the World Faiths Development Dialogue explored these important questions. Panel discussions focused on: an examination and reframing of feminism to accommodate religious traditions; gender norms in religious dating and marriage; and achieving work-life balance among working mothers. Crystal Corman, program manager, World Faiths Development Dialogue (moderator) Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family Salma Abugidier, columnist, AltMuslimah and founding board member, Peaceful Families Project Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, senior editor, The Federalist

September 24, 2014 | What are the most pressing issues at the intersection of faith and gender, and how can women of different faiths and views derive strength and meaning from their respective religions? A conference cosponsored by the the new web magazine altFem (from the founders of altMuslimah.com and altCatholicah.com), the Berkley Center’s project on Women, Religion, and the Family, and the World Faiths Development Dialogue explored these important questions. Panel discussions focused on: an examination and reframing of feminism to accommodate religious traditions; gender norms in religious dating and marriage; and achieving work-life balance among working mothers. Ashley McGuire, co-founder, altFem Magazine (moderator) Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director, Judicial Crisis Network Jamillah Karim, independent scholar (formerly Associate Professor of Religion, Spelman College) Melissa Langsam Braunstein, staff writer, Acculturated and contributing writer, Kveller

Due to popular demand, The Women's Mosque of America held a second jumma'a on April 22nd to cover the topic of Grief, Loss, and Divorce - with an additional focus on Interracial Marriage. In her pre-khutbah bayan (talk), Sabina Khan-Ibarra shares courageously from her experiences of losing her baby and marrying outside of her race, and she gifts the congregation with a beautiful, inspiring model through which to process grief and faith during times of difficulty. Bio: Sabina Khan-Ibarra is the founder of Muslimah Montage, a platform for Muslim women to tell their own stories. Sabina and her website, Muslimah Montage, have been featured on Buzzfeed, The National, The Chicago Monitor, and NBC News. Sabina is also an assistant editor at AltMuslimah and GiveLight Foundation. She is the Member Development Chair at MuslimARC, an organization that addresses and combats intra-Muslim racism. In 2011, to commemorate the loss of her young son, Sabina created Ibrahim's Tree, an internet website devoted to stories on dealing with grief. She also writes and speaks about grief in Muslim communities. Her work has been published on BlogHer, Huffington Post, ISNA Horizons, InCulture Magazine, AltMuslimah, Love InshAllah, Patheos (AltMuslim), Brown Girl Magazines, and many other outlets.

My guest today is Dr. Shadee Elmasry Dr. Shadee Elmasry was born and raised in New Jersey. He began studying the traditional sciences rigorously at age eighteen after a summer in Fes, Morocco. Since then he has studied all over the world including Hadramawt (Yemen), Mecca and Madina (Saudi Arabia), London (UK), Cairo (Egypt) and New Jersey (U.S.) under several luminaries. He received a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. He is currently the Scholar in Residence and Director of Education and Community Affairs at the New Brunswick Islamic Center in New Jersey. He is also the founder and head of Safina Society - an institution dedicated to the cause of traditional Islamic education in the West. You can follow Dr. Shadee on Twitter and Facebook. Time-stamped show notes: 03:20 Why has Islamic Aqidah (Creed) become a bad word among Muslims in the West?  07:40 The three-part foundation to understanding Islam Cosmology - what do we believe exists? Epistemology - what are our sources of truth? Methodology - how do we interpret these sources?   12:33 Cosmology is where believers split with atheists. 13:45 Epistemology is where mainstream Muslims (Sunni Muslims in general) split from the deviant sects in Islam and all other religions.  16:55 Methodology is where mainstream Muslims will differ in their interpretations of Islam. Some interpretations fall within the scope of correct methodology while others do not. 23:43 What happens when someone who claims to be Muslim denies one of the axiomatic tenets of Islam? Those things that are necessarily known as part of the faith. (Arabic - ma'lum min ad-din bi 'dh-dharurah)  24:45 Dr. Shadee goes off on Big Dawah. the Dawah establishment. (I've seen this term used formally once before; I think we should make it stick.) 27:30 Dawah is a failed enterprise if it's not grounded in knowledge. 28:35 I comment on how Dr. Shadee's strategy of sticking to the masjid and using the internet and social media to spread knowledge is the safest bet. 31:47 Dr. Shadee gives the example of Sheikh Murabit Al-Hajj, who lives in a Mauritanian desert camp while his students travel from all over the World to live and study with him. 32:56 I mention one of the fundamental maxims of Islamic law - avoidance of harm takes precedence over seeking benefit. 34:42 Dr. Shadee tries to stay as financially independent as possible because the guy who writes your check owns you. 37:05 Stand by your principles and people will respect you. 38:40 Dr. Shadee explains the result of politically correct preachers. 41:40 The fake unity of politically correct Islam, and the selfishness of Muslims who don't unequivocally make the Truth clear.  45:10 How to know who to spend your time with: ask yourself "would I trade my Book of Deeds with that person on Judgement Day?" 47:10 In religion, the old way is the right way. 48:15 A personal development principle that's relevant to Dawah. Fall in love with the process, not the results. 49:40 The differences between Grassroots Dawah (in the masjid) and Big Dawah.  50:20 Doing what's best for your audience - the Web Analytics and Bounce Rate Analogy. 51:30 Identifying the true metrics of success as opposed to vanity metrics. 53:40 Allah asks Ibrahim to call all the people of the World to Hajj and He will make sure the message is conveyed. 57:05 How should Muslims go about gaining the understanding of the fundamentals - cosmology, epistemology, methodology. 1:02:42 How should a beginner student approach studying Aqidah? 1:07:40 The importance of studying the history of the transmission of the Quran and Hadith - the need of the time. 1:13:07 Why are we being negative and sounding off these alarms? 1:16:30 The fasiq (sinful) Muslims of the past had a better Aqidah than some of the Muslim academics today. 1:18:00 The Muslim community can sometimes be more dangerous to a Muslim's faith than any non-Muslim. 1:19:45 My concern over my daughters reading and being brainwashed by deviant websites like Muslim Girl, Tempest, and Altmuslimah. 1:22:30 The importance of the student guarding his humility. 1:23:00 Why does Dr. Shadee refrain from speaking about politics? Is that on purpose? 1:24:12 If you want to do one great thing you have to say no to a hundred good things. 1:24:50 What sort of classes does Safina Society offer? 1:28:40 Segregation of the sexes is a feature of all traditional societies. The longest-surviving, most successful societies seperate genders and mix ages - modern Western society does the opposite. 1:30:24 How do people enroll in Safina Society classes? Do they have online classes? 1:32:50 To close out the show I ask Dr. Shadee to give Becoming the Alpha Muslim readers his #1 piece of advice. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave be a rating and review on iTunes or Stitcher.

Khateebah Aziza Hasan is an interfaith activist who delivered the 6th khutbah on May 22nd, 2015. In the midst of a growing tide of hate speech, Aziza explores the wisdom of the Noble Quran in how to empower children to respond to hate speech with compassionate action. Her khutbah highlights diversity as the Will of the Almighty, and how we might rise to the challenge of truly embracing that Will by competing against one another in doing good works. Bio: Aziza Hasan has extensive experience in program management and coalition building. She has worked with diverse groups to deliver quality programming that developed the skills of its participants in the areas of civic engagement, advocacy, service learning, leadership, conflict transformation and diversity training. Aziza is a founding director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change. An experienced mediator and conflict resolution practitioner she has co-facilitated multiple fellowship cohorts. A successful model of genuine engagement, NewGround has been featured on Public Radio's “Speaking of Faith” with Krista Tippett, the Unites States Institute for Peace, Arabic Radio and Television, the LA Times, the Jewish Journal and InFocus. Aziza is experienced in Small Claims Court mediation, coaching individuals and leading groups in conflict resolution. Her two years of AmeriCorps service gave her hands-on experience in community organizing and group problem-solving. She has appeared on CNN, ABCnews, Fox 11, LA City View 35, National Public Radio, and KCRW. Print media coverage of her work may be found in The Mennonite, AltMuslimah, The Wichita Eagle, The Newton-Kansan, The Halstead Independent, Hutchinson News and The Bethel College Collegian.