Join Ustadha Ieasha Prime to uncover the profound wisdom of healing hearts amidst adversity, conflict, and interpersonal connections, emulating the Prophetic example. Shaykh Dr. Rania Awaad moderates the discussion.
Friday, September 6, 2024 | 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. | MCC Prayer Hall | Women & Men Ages 12+ | Free; RSVP at mcceastbay.org/heal | Join in person or watch live at mcceastbay.org/live
Sponsored by The Rahmah Foundation & MCC East Bay.
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Also, on Saturday, September 7, at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, Shaykha Prime will speak from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. about “Fostering Our Love For The Beloved.”
Ieasha Prime is the Director of Women’s Programming at Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia and the founder of DC Muslim Women’s Conference. She converted to Islam more than 20 years ago after being a Youth Ambassador to Morrocco and Senegal. There, she developed a thirst for knowledge that would cause her to sit at the feet and learn from some of the top Islamic Scholars of our time. After participating in several circles of knowledge in the US, Ieasha pursued religious studies abroad. She studied Arabic and the Qur’an at the Fajr Institute in Cairo, Egypt. Later, she moved to Hadramaut, Yemen, and enrolled in Dar al Zahra, an Islamic University for Women. There, she studied Aqeedah, Quran, Hadith, Arabic, Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Islamic law, Purification of the Heart, and other religious-related learning. She has received several scholarly licenses (ijaza). The work that she is most committed to and enjoys has been the development of Islamic programming, Islamic Studies curriculum, and Rites of Passage programs for youth and adults. The majority of her life has been spent as an educator and activist. She is most passionate about combining Islamic studies, cultural art, activism, and service to train leaders to rise above whatever challenges stand in their way and that of the community they serve. In addition to her full-time work, she is the co-founder and Executive Director of Barakah INC, an organization committed to training Muslim women in traditional Islamic sciences with a focus on modern application. Sister Ieasha is recently known for participating in the National Women’s March and the courses she teaches on traditional knowledge, the challenges of race and gender in the Muslim community, and Spirituality. Ieasha Prime is a proud wife and mother of three children.
Dr. Rania Awaad was born in Cairo, Egypt, but moved to New York at age three because her mother was recruited as a translator for the United Nations in Manhattan, and her father was a physician.
Dr. Awaad is “particularly passionate about uncovering the historical roots of mental health care in the Islamic intellectual heritage” (“Profile, Rania Awaad, MD”). Dr. Awaad was the first female professor of Islamic law at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. While at Zaytuna, she taught Shafi’i jurisprudence, women’s jurisprudential issues, and the Quran. She pursued her psychiatric residency training at Stanford and completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Shaykha Dr. Awaad is recognized nationwide as a leader in Muslim mental health and has been invited to present her work at national conventions in Washington, DC by Presidents Obama and Biden, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Health & Human Services (HHS), and Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Dr. Awaad successfully established the US’s first Muslim Mental Health Community Advisory Board (BAMMH CAB). In addition, she has established multiple Muslim mental health clinics as well as custom-tailored clinical and educational training programs for clinicians and religious and community leaders to address the mental health needs of Muslim communities.
Dr. Awaad has multiple recognitions that reflect her consistent contributions to the Muslim community and humanity.
Honors & Awards:
Department Faculty Professional and Leadership Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2021)
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Stanford Psychiatry Residency Program (2021)
Stanford Leadership Development Program, Stanford University (2020-2021)
Top 25 Faith and Spiritual Influencers of 2020 Award, HolyTV (2020)
Community Achievement Award for exceptional commitment to promoting mental health wellbeing, ACCESS California (2019)