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On October 11th, 2015, KARAMAH held its first event of the “Love Like the Prophet” series 2015. This is the fourth year that KARAMAH holds this series of community events with the aim of addressing domestic violence from an Islamic perspective, promoting discussion within our communities about this issue, and shedding light on resources available to […]

Continuing in our promise to bring to you each performance from this year’s “Strong Voices, Strong Communities,” we introduce Dilfuza Abdulkhasan, a LLSP 2015 alumna from Uzbekistan. Ms. Abdulkhasan is a judge in Uzbekistan, a position not often held by women and certainly not by women wearing a headscarf. Ms. Abdulkhasan is now furthering her

On September 17, 2015, KARAMAH co-sponsored a very important and timely panel discussion titled “Monitoring Minorities: The Past and Present of Discriminatory Surveillance Practices.” The event was organized by the Capital Area Muslim Bar Association (“CAMBA”) and speakers at the event were: Professor John Brittain, Linda Sarsour, and Rachel Levinson-Waldman. The panelists explored how these practices affect two overlapping

On August 13th, 2015, Dr. Azizah al-Hibri analyzed with LLSP participants verses in the Qur’an which are often misinterpreted and historically have been used to justify oppression and abuse of women. Dr. al-Hibri first looked at Surat al-Nisa’ and raised the topic of obedience as it is described in the Qur’an. She worked with students

On August 15-16, 2015, KARAMAH collaborated with Ikram: Foundation for Empowerment of Muslim Women to present the two day Skill-Building and Intervention Skills Training Workshop “Say Peace” which is one in a series of workshops organized under the banner: “Promoting Healthy Marriage and Preventing Divorce in our Communities.” The workshop was held at the Fairfax

Friday August 14th, 2015 marked the last day of KARAMAH’s Law and Leadership Program 2015. The LLSP Class heard from Abed Awad about the Islamic marriage contract, and particularly, how it is treated under U.S. law. Mr. Awad began his course by describing the distinctions between an Islamic marriage contract and a prenuptial agreement, a