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On August 1 and 2, LLSP participants attended Dr. Amr Abdalla’s two-day workshop “Conflict Resolution.” Dr Abdalla started the class by encouraging the participants to share common assumptions about conflict. The class agreed that conflict is a situation where two or more parties have incompatible goals or interests that do not match. From the beginning, […]

Qasim Rashid’s lecture, “Message Mapping and Effective Communication,” taught LLSP 2016 the skills to communicate and engage with an audience, which are necessary in becoming a successful leader. Mr. Rashid started by asking the participants to come up with one line describing their ideal job, together with why and how they would do it. He

KARAMAH’s family law attorney, Julia Bizer, led our LLSP class in today’s lecture called “Effective Organizational Leadership.” Ms. Bizer laid out the foundational concepts of leadership and teamwork by distinguishing a team from a group. A team strives to achieve performance objectives, not just certain ends, and each team member has a clear role and

Dr. Alwani opened her class, “Approaching the Qur’an,” by asking the participants to define their personal relationship with the Qur’an. The participants’ answers shared similarities: many use it for inspiration and guidance, while some use it to communicate with God one-on-one. Dr. Alwani then asked, how do we evaluate our performance as an Ummah in

In his class on Islamic marriage contracts, Mr. Awad offered a thorough overview of family law issues unique to Muslim communities. Shari’a is relevant in American courts either as foreign law or as sources of information that aid the fact finding process. Some of these issues involve the validity of a Muslim marriage contract, and

LLSP participants spent this afternoon learning about “Powerful Speaking for Powerful Women,” a class taught by Iesha Prime. Ms. Prime emphasized the importance of building our own voice in establishing our identity She stated that it is through the act of speaking that we convey powerful thoughts and stories to other people. Ms. Prime started

Mr. Latif instructed our LLSP class on the theory of change (“TOC”), and how each of us can develop a TOC that is useful for running organizations, as well as for our personal lives. Sometimes, when people ask us why we do things a certain way, we sometimes realize that we do it because that

Prof. Fadel started his class, Islam and Public Reasoning, by explaining that the original efforts of political philosophy – the pursuit of truth – changed over time. This was due to the plurality in our society, where different beliefs and perspectives make it extremely difficult to establish a universal view of what is true. By