Program
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Day One – Friday, November 13, 2020
2:30pm – 3:00pm EST
Day One: Welcome, Qur’an Recitation, Introductions
Quran Reciter: Hamza Bilgic
3:00pm – 4:30pm EST
Keynote and Panel #1 – Perspectives from Muslim Physicians & Nurses
Dr. Wael Haddara – Keynote – “The Pandemic as a Mirror of Ourselves: Stories of Hope and Lessons for Change”
Dr. Nour Akhras – “The Covid19 pandemic: Focusing the Islamic lens of the Microscope on the American-Muslim Physician Experience”
Sisters Namarig Ahmed, RN, MN & Areej Ahmed, RN, MScN – “What COVID19 Can’t Take from Us”
Moderator: Dr. Ingrid Mattson
4:45pm – 5:15pm EST
Break
Music: Istanbul Trio
5:15pm – 6:45pm EST
Panel #2 – When Crisis Hits the Community
Chaplain Khurram Ahmed, “EOL Care for Unrepresented Muslims: How COVID-19 Created a Tool for Beyond the Pandemic “
Chaplain Zubair Yousif, “Faith, Spiritual Care and the COVID 19 Pandemic: The Prison Chaplain Response”
Dr. Fatih Harpci, “Loving your Neighbor in the Age of the Pandemic”
Moderator: Imam Yasin Dwyer
6:45pm – 7:15pm EST
Break
7:15pm – 8:45pm EST
Panel #3 – We are Sad & We Have Hope
Dr. Sulayman Sertkaya, “2020 The Year of Sorrow: Lessons and Coping Strategies from the Most Difficult Year of the Prophet’s Life”
Chaplain Samsiah Abdul-Majid, AMC, “In a state of hope…my son died, alone…”
Dr. Bilal Ansari, “Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen: A Lived Theology”
Moderator: Dr. Kameelah Mu’min Rashad
8:45pm EST
Closing Remarks and Salawat
Day Two – Saturday, November 14, 2020
8:45am – 9:00am EST
Qur’an Recitation and Opening
Quran Reciter: Mujesira Neimarlija
9:00am – 10:30am EST
Panel #4 – Theory & Practice
Dr. Muhammad Tahir, “Strategies for Pastoral and Spiritual Care during the Global Pandemic: An Islamic Theoretical Framework for Practical Application”
Alina Jabbari, “Contemplation as resilience: finding a balance between the individual and the communal”
Dr. Abdallah Rothman, “Finding Center in the Heart of the Pandemic: Practical Tools from the Islamic Tradition for Building Resiliency in Times of Disruption and Trauma”
Moderator: Dr. Hakam Gok
10:30am – 11:00am EST
Break
Music: Istanbul Trio
11:00am – 12:45pm EST
Panel #5 – Congregational Adaptations
Graduate Student & Exec. Dir. Center DC, Lauren Schreiber, “Need Spiritual Care? “Join us Online”: A Case Study of Muslim Community Connection During COVID-19”
Dr. Mahmoud Abdallah, “When a Crisis Empties Mosques: A Case Study of Germany and Austria’s response to Pastoral Care”
Doctoral Student Sanaa Khan and Hafiza Insha Khan, “Zoom Ramadan: Possibilities for Virtual Gathering in Post-Normal Times”
Hajja Ashaki Taha-Cisse: “Reflections from a Muslim Elder”
Moderator: Dr. Tamara Gray
12:45pm – 1:15pm EST
Break
Music: UK Nasheed Group
1:15pm – 2:45pm EST
Panel #6 The Qur’an & Sunnah for Our Whole Selves
Researcher Samira Ibrahim, “Extracting and Contextualizing Leadership Values from the Quran during the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Dr. Nazila Isgandarova, “Praying and Celebrating in Times of Iztirar (Immediate Necessity): A Muslim Response to COVID-19”
Imam Abdul-Malik Merchant, “No Fear nor Grief: Differentiating Between Islamic Spiritual Gnosis and Spiritual Bypassing”
Moderator: Dr. Halim Calis
2:45pm – 3:15pm EST
Break
Music: Istanbul Trio
3:15pm – 4:45pm EST
Panel #7 Spiritually-Grounded Mental Health Support
Dr. Yusra Ahmad, “Mindfully Muslim – An Islamic Mindfulness Group Therapy Program: A Resource for Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Dr. Salih Yucel, “An Islamic therapy: Fear reducing holistic approach (FERHA)”
Grad. Student Lara Dagamseh, “Talking to Children and Youth about God During COVID-19 Pandemic: Grounded by the Directions of the Quran and the Sunnah”
Moderator: Dr. Zulayha Colak