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Join CAIR-Cleveland for our 13th Annual Ramadan Iftar and Fundraiser
April 9, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Please join CAIR-Cleveland at our 13th Annual Ramadan Iftar Dinner and Fundraiser on April 9, 2022
Join us for a Ramadan Iftar Dinner with renowned speaker Khaled A. Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear.
WHAT: CAIR-OHIO, Cleveland Chapter, 13th Annual Ramadan Iftar Dinner and Fundraiser
WHEN: Saturday, April 9, 2022, 5:30 Registration | 6:00 Program Starts
WHERE: LaVilla Banquet Center, 11500 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44130
Ticket Costs: $50 per individual ticket; $35 per student ticket. $500 for tables of 10*
Childcare is available at $10.00 per child.
Please RSVP by April 1, 2022.
Once ticket sales have closed on Eventbrite, call our office to determine if there are any tickets available.
For more information or to RSVP, visit our event page call 216.830.2247, visit caircleveland.com, or email events@cleveland.cair.com
*To book a table, please call 216.830.2247 or email events@cleveland.cair.com
Note: Event sponsorships are available; please let us know if your family or business would like to help sponsor the program.
Please call 216.830.2247 for more information.
About Our Keynote Speaker, Khaled A. Beydoun
Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is a law professor, author and public intellectual. He serves as a law professor at Wayne State University, a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Associate Director of the Damon J.Keith Center for Civil Rights in Detroit. Professor Beydoun is author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, and co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law – published by U. Cambridge Press.
Professor Beydoun’s academic work has been featured in top academic journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the California Law Review and the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC and ESPN. Professor Beydoun served on the US Commission for Civil Rights for three years, and earned a coveted Open Society Foundations Equality Fellowship. He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the World, and is currently working on his third book examining Islamophobia as a global phenomenon. In 2021, Professor Beydoun was named “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Western Cape in South Africa, and he joined the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as a faculty member that very year.
Professor Beydoun in a native of Detroit, Michigan, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, UCLA, and Harvard.
About Our Inspirational Speaker, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik has served previously as the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center, the first Muslim Chaplain at Howard University (HU) and is the former Head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains in Higher Education. The imam has also served as the chair of government relations for the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) and was the founding President of the Muslim Advocacy Commission of Washington, DC. He continues to serve on the board of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, one of the nations first organizations of its kind with over 11 faith traditions.
From an Episcopal choir boy-who visited the deep southern Pentecostal holiness church during his summer vacations as youth-until at confirmation the teachings of the Ten Commandments presented to him contradictions with the concept of the Trinity and the Oneness of God (Tawheed). In high school he searched for spirituality in Taoism, Asian spirituality.
In his native Brooklyn community his mother kept the family busy with community activism. In College he became a Black activist, musician, practiced transcendental mediation (TM) and vegetarianism. In Graduate school, Allah showed him the light of Islam. He served as the President of MSA at Howard University and later the University’s first Muslim Chaplain.
Known nationally for his fundraising efforts for masjids, schools and relief and support organizations. Imam Johari and along with Rev. Graylan Hagler started the Ramadan Feed-the-Needy Program in Washington, DC feeding over 100 hundred homeless women of all faiths nightly during the holy month of fasting.
He lectures on a variety of subjects to motivate the Muslim community and the community at large to better themselves and their world.