2018 AREF Awards Gala
Featuring: Dr. Hatem Bazian
Friday, November 2nd, 2018 - 7:00 pm
Oasis Centre, Edmonton, AB
Dr. Hatem Bazian is Provost, Co-Founder and Professor at Zaytuna College. Dr. Bazian is also a Teaching Professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Bazian is an adviser to the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Center at UC Berkeley. In 2009, he founded the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley, Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and Founder and Director of the International Islamophobia Studies Consortium.
Dr. Bazian is on the board of several organizations, including the Islamic Scholarship Fund, Muslim Legal Fund of America and Muslim Americans for Palestine, for which he is also the founding president.
2018 Scholarship Recipients
AREF Entrance Award ($1,000)
Sarah Adil
Sohaib Khadri
Rafid Khan
Abdalazeem Kshim
Fajar Khan
EIA Award ($1,000)
Ahmad Al-Sheikh Ali
Amirah Nazir
Hadeel Mohamed
Ahmed Refik
Huzaifa Zar
Leadership Award ($3,000)
Srosh Hassan
Muhammad Haris Khan
Zainab Abbasi
Ronny Jomha Memorial Bussiness Award ($1,500)
Norman-Muhamed Dean Murray
Research Award ($3,000)
Abubakar Abdulkadir
School of Public Health Award ($5,000)
Salimah Valiani
Political Sciences Award ($3,000)
Muhammad Shahroze Khan
Iyshie Mariam Kazeil Memorial Award ($5,000)
Yasmeen El Hajj Abdallah