Online and in-person: The Challenges of Modern-day Social Interaction
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Title: Online and in-person: The Challenges of Modern-day Social Interaction
Date: 15 Jul 2011 at 18:45 to 20:30
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, W1H 4LP
Event details:
From the virtual worlds of Facebook and other social networking sites to the daily reality of living and interacting as a minority in a dominant culture, Muslims in Western societies face unique psychological and spiritual challenges when it comes to social interaction. This talk will discuss the development of religious identity in the modern world from the standpoint of contemporary psychology and traditional Islamic spirituality.
The speaker:
Dr Omar Mahmood was born and raised in Southern California. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California Los Angeles where he double-majored in Psychobiology and Arabic. He then traveled overseas to Yemen to study Islamic Sciences in the traditional institute known as Dar al Mustafa. His studies focused on jurisprudence (fiqh), Arabic grammar, and sciences of the heart. He returned to the States and attended graduate school in Michigan where he completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Wayne State University.
He is currently employed at the University of California, San Diego and serves as an advisor to MYNA (Muslim Youth of North America). He is active in efforts to promote the development of Islamic identity in Muslim youth through spirituality, counseling, recreation, and the arts.
Free entrance. All welcome. No booking needed.
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