Speaking

Lectures and keynotes

Universities, seminaries, mosques, churches, synagogues and interfaith gatherings across the country.

Topics

A selection, newest first. Recordings are on the media page.

Chaplaincy and professional life
University of New Haven student government and Muslim Students Association, Gehring Hall, talk
Saturday Night Live: campus connection
Roots of Sunnah and ISNA, 63rd ISNA Convention, Detroit, as co-host, panel
Guest halaqa
University of New Haven Muslim Students Association, lecture
Iftar fundraiser, with Imam Zaid Shakir
Masjid Al-Islam, New Haven, at Roti Boti in West Haven, talk
Find your balance this Ramadan
Bayan Islamic Graduate School, with Muhammed El Marouk and Chaplain Nora Zaki, webinar
Preparing the soul for Ramadan
Maqam CT, at MOTW Coffee and Pastries, New Haven, lecture
Ramadan on campus
Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education, member session, workshop
Fundamentals of prophetic youth leadership
The Islamic Seminary of America, weekend short course at Yale with Mona Islam and Jimmy Jones, course

Tuesday halaqa
Masjid Al-Islam, New Haven, lecture
Keynote, 51st annual fundraising dinner
Islamic Foundation, Villa Park, Illinois, address
College life and faith, for juniors and seniors
Islamic Foundation School, Villa Park, Illinois, talk
On campus chaplaincy
Association of Muslim Chaplains annual conference, conference talk
Benediction, Yale Baccalaureate
Yale University, Class of 2025, address
Conversing with God: an Islamic approach to ritual prayer
Listening to Other Voices series, Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, lecture
Seminar on Islam for rabbinical students
Hebrew College winter intensives, Newton, course

Blessings for your students: prayers for interfaith communities in higher education
Hartford International University book event, with Maytal Saltiel and Lucinda Mosher, panel
Invocation, Yale Prison Education Initiative commencement
The first bachelor’s degree ceremony held in a Connecticut prison, MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, address
Peace and Dialogue Leadership Initiative speaker event
Yale, talk
Book talk: Mantle of Mercy
Boston Islamic Seminary, lecture
Islamophobia: origins and consequences
Hartford International University webinar series, Antisemitism and Islamophobia Then and Now, webinar

The art of spiritual care
Office of Religious Life, Princeton University, lecture
Benediction, Yale Baccalaureate
Yale University, Class of 2022, address
Benediction, Veterans Day ceremony
Yale University, address
Mantle of Mercy: lessons from the pandemic
Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education, with Muhammad Ali and Patty Anton, workshop
Twenty years of chaplaincy education: alumni panel
Hartford International University, panel

Abrahamic perspectives on civil rights
Peace Islands Institute New York, with Rabbi Ebbin and Pastor Monrose, panel
Preparing for Ramadan in a time of crisis
Muslim Student Association, Georgetown University in Qatar, lecture
Growing up Muslim in America
Islamic Center of New London, Groton, lecture

Muslim-Jewish relations: can we be friends?
Young Israel of Oceanside, with Rabbi Jonathan Muskat, dialogue
A crash course in Islam
Yale Divinity School Summer Study, five-day course, course

Catholic-Muslim relations
Albertus Magnus College, Saint Thomas Aquinas Lecture Series, lecture
A taste of Ramadan: an interfaith fasting panel
Farmington Valley League of Light and Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, Avon, panel

Uniting against hate: an Islamic perspective on social justice
Eid banquet, University of Rhode Island, lecture
Inner and outer dimensions of fasting in Ramadan
Church of the Good Shepherd, Orange, lecture
Forum on Islam
Southern Connecticut State University, lecture
Muslim pilgrimage: the Hajj
Church of the Good Shepherd, Orange, lecture
The misrepresentation of Muslims in the media
Quinnipiac University, lecture
Drawn from his Cornell research on press coverage of Muslims before and after September 11th.

Pope Francis' encyclical: climate change evokes moral change
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, St. Thomas More Chapel, with Rabbi Joshua Ratner, panel
A panel response to Laudato Si'.
Extremism as a destabilizing force
30th Islamic Conference of New England, University of Bridgeport, lecture

Loving the Beloved
Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, Berlin Mosque, with Imam Refai Arefin, lecture

Stories from the Muslim world
Fairfield Public Library, lecture
Islam and community: a path to submission, or a guide to life?
Happiness Across Religions and Cultures series, Yale, talk
Meet the chaplains: seeking guidance
50th annual convention, Islamic Society of North America, panel
Tragedy, trials and tribulations: the grace in calamities
Hedaya Center, Newtown, with Yasmin Mogahed and Newtown’s interfaith clergy, panel
Five months after the Sandy Hook shooting.

Prayers at the New Haven vigil for Newtown
New Haven Green, with Sharon Kugler and city clergy, address
Muslims and Christians: listening together for God
United Church on the Green, New Haven, sermon

Islamophobia: myth or facts
University of Rhode Island, as Cornell’s Muslim chaplain, panel