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SUMMARY:Command Yourself to Justice: Islam and Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMCCT Annual Leadership Banquet\, Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hat
 em Bazian\n\nKeynote Speaker Bio:\n\nDr. Hatem Bazian is a scholar of reli
 gion\, politics\, and globalization whose field specialties include Islami
 c Law\, Awqaf and Fatawa Texts\, Classical Arabic\, Palestine\, Islamophob
 ia\, Diaspora and Comparative Immigration\, American Law and Society\, Ara
 b and Arab American Studies\, Race Theory and History\, Colonialism\, Post
 -Colonial and De-colonial Studies\, Ethnic Studies\, Multi-Cultural and Cr
 oss-Cultural Studies\, International Relations and Globalization\, Social 
 and Political Movement\, Comparative Liberation Theologies\, Languages\, a
 nd Media.\n\nDr. Bazian is also a professor in the Departments of Near Eas
 tern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a
 n adviser to the Religion\, Politics\, and Globalization Center there. Pri
 or to his post at Zaytuna College\, he taught at UC Berkeley School of Law
 \; UC Davis\; San Francisco State University\; Graduate Theological Union\
 ; Saint Mary’s College\; and Diablo Valley College.\n\nDr. Bazian earned
  his PhD at UC Berkeley in Near Eastern Studies in 2000. His PhD thesis\, 
 titled “Al-Quds in Islamic Consciousness: A Textual Survey of Muslim Cla
 ims and Rights to the Sacred City\,” contributes to better understanding
  of Muslim attachment and informed political attitudes toward the sacred c
 ity of Jerusalem and Palestine in general.\n\nDr. Bazian is fluent in Arab
 ic and can read and write in Persian and read in Turkish and German.\n\nTI
 CKETS:\n\n(Ticket price includes halal banquet dinner)\n\nIndividual: $100
 \n\nStudent: $75 (minimum age 10)\n\nTable of 10: $950\n\nStudent table of
  10: $650\n\nFor questions email: info@mcct.us\, or call 860-242-1707\n\nW
 ebsite: www.muslimcoalitionct.org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speak
 er: Dr. Hatem Bazian\, Professor at UC Berkley and Co-Founder of Zaytuna C
 ollege\n\n\n
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