An Afternoon with Sheema Khan –

Introducing Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman

Of Hockey and Hijab is the newly-published compilation of Sheema Khan’s contributions to The Globe and Mail. In these thoughtful essays, Sheema Khan—Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD—gives us her own pointed insights on the condition of being a modern and liberal, yet practicing, Muslim especially in Canada. Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism, human rights, Islamic law, women’s rights, and the anti-veil controversy, she explains Islam to the greater public while calling for mutual understanding and tolerance.

Date: Saturday November 7, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Admission: $5.00

Sheema Khan writes a monthly column for The Globe and Mail on issues pertaining to Islam and Muslims. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in chemical physics, along with numerous patents on drug delivery technology. She has served on the Board of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (2004–2008), and is the founder of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) and its former chair (2000–2005). She testified as an expert witness on Muslims in Canada before the O’Connor Inquiry, and has appeared before a number of parliamentary committees. In addition, she has spoken at numerous NGO conferences and government agencies on issues of security, civil rights, and Muslim cultural practice. She is currently a patent agent in Ottawa.

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Tags: CAIR, CAIR-CAN, Hijab, Hockey, O'Connor Inqui, O'Connor inquiry, Sheema Khan

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