2021 Ramadan Halaqa Series: The Plight Against Gender-Based Oppression  ft. Ghada Ghazal - Week 1
Channel: Muslim Space
Date: 2021-04-17

Ramadan Halaqa: Human Dignity Series 2021

Muslim Space offers a 4-part Ramadan halaqa titled Human Dignity Series - Affirming and elevating God's honor to humankind. The goal of this series to elevate the notion that all creation has been granted dignity from the Divine and it is incumbent on all believers to uphold this dignity, not only to ourselves but to others. The 4 topics that will be addressed are issues that have historically diminished God's gift of dignity: gender-based oppression, racism, classism/poverty, environmental destruction and how it robs current and future generations of dignity. 

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Ghada Ghazal is an educator from Syria but has lived outside her country since 2012 due to the violence. In Syria, she taught Islam and Arabic at the Al-Anduluse Institute for Islamic Studies, an institute which worked to empower women to become social and Islamic activists. She was also a member of the Islamic Studies Center of Damascus, an influential group of religious and spiritual leaders.

Ghada is currently pursuing her PhD at The Catholic University of America. She received a Master’s degree in Comparative Religions from the Qatar Foundation’s School of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Her thesis was a study of the praise of Prophet Muhammad in the poetry of contemporary Arab Christian poets. She holds a Master’s degree in English from the United Kingdom and an undergraduate degree from Al-Baath University in Syria.