Since assuming the Chair:
Lectures, Presentations, Participation in Panels, etc.
“Keynote,” Annual Community Dinner, The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, October, 2011
“The New ‘We’: Muslims in Western Society,” Reviving the Islamic Spirit, Toronto, Canada, December, 2011
“United We Stand: One Nation,” Washington, DC January, 2012
“Muslims in America: Identity, Politics, Engagement,” Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, Unversity of Southern California, March, 2012
“The Mosque’s Role in the 21st Century,” Annual Banquet of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, June, 2012
“Keynote,” Second Annual ISNA Diversity Forum, Dearborn, MI , June, 2012
“An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Sherman Jackson,” Ta’leef Collective, Freemont, CA, August, 2012
Panel Discussant, “Outrage in the Middle East: The Video Incident,” USC Gould School of Law, organized by the Middle East Studies Program, University of Southern California, October, 2012
“Keynote Address,” CAIR Banquet, Phoenix, AZ, November, 2012
Panel Discussant, “Let’s Be Honest:Getting Beyond the Taboos of Our Community, Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley, San Gabriel, CA, November, 2012
“When Hurricanes Happen: Crisis as the Norm,” Reviving the Islamic Spirit, Toronto, Canada, December, 2012
“When Men Were Mountains: Imam al-Qarafi and the Islamic Intellectual Tradition,” Reviving the Islamic Spirit, Toronto, Canada, December, 2012
“Sharia and the Challenge of Culture in the West,” American Learning Institute for Muslims, Islamic Society of Orange County, Orange Grove, CA, January, 2013
“Islam and Race,” Islamic Center of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2013
“Sufism for Non-Sufis?,” Plano Mosque, Plano, TX, February, 2013
“Keynote Address,” Inner City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) Luncheon, Chicago, IL, March, 2013
“The Challenge of Culture and the Need for Cultural Authority,” Boston Mosque, April, 2013
“Sufism for Non-Sufis?” Boston Mosque, April, 2013
Blogs:
“9-11: A Decade Later,” The Huffington Post, September, 2011
“Trayvon Martin: Between ‘Whitening’ and Bad Law, Huffington Post, May, 2012
“Islam in America: Between the Secular and Secularism,” American Learning Institute for Muslims website, August, 2012
“Understanding Our Present and Looking to Our Future, American Learning Institute for Muslims website, September, 2012
“Muslims As a Marginal Minority in America,” “American Learning Institute for Muslims website, October, 2012
“Islam: Between Old Fundamentalism, New Fundamentalism and Modern Sincerity,” American Learning Institute for Muslims website, April, 2013
Magazine Pieces:
“America, the Fragile, Ever-Evolving Arabesque: Between Muslims, Non-Muslims and Euromericans,” The Islamic Monthly, Winter/Spring, 2012
“Response to Douglas Farrow’s Thirteen Theses on Marriage,” First Things, October, 2012