Learn more about Muslim Leadership Training Program media training, Ramadan prayers and celebrations, and recent writing and media by Imam Feisal in the July 2017 Cordoba House newsletter! VIEW NEWSLETTER ...
Cordoba House Hosts Eid al-Fitr Prayers and Picnic
On June 26th, Cordoba House Sunday School organized a jubilant Eid picnic at Battery Park for children and grownups from the Cordoba House community. The festivities included a traditional Eid Takbir, with Music Instructor Mustafa Ulmer adding a creative musical touch playing shakers, tambourines, and West African drums with the children. There were also a variety of entertaining magical shows and group activities for children, such as face-painting, kite flying, basketball, as well as a soccer ...
Eid Greetings from Cordoba House
Muslim Leadership Training Program: Training Effective Messengers
Students of Cordoba House's Muslim Leadership Training Program—including prominent imams and graduate students from leading American universities—took part in an intensive media training seminar, which covered how to most effectively communicate an organizational message across various channels, such as social media, traditional media, and during interviews on television and radio. The goal of this training was to prepare these up-an-coming leaders to become effective spokespeople on ...
Stephan Said: World Refugee Day – Changing The Conversation On Forced Migration
Read this thoughtful and engaging piece for World Refugee Day by musician and activist, Stephan Said, in which he explores the roots of forced migration and what we can do not only to support displaced people but to help alleviate the causes of the crisis: "To stem the migration crisis, we must change the very nature of global society from one of individual interest, unaccountability and profit to one of mutual responsibility." READ MORE (Huffington Post) About Stephan Said Stephan ...