Dr. Sofia Rehman

Dr Sofia Rehman is an independent scholar specialising in Islam and Gender. She works as a knowledge building consultant for Musawah Movement, a global organisation committed to the reform of Muslim family law in line with gender egalitarian readings of Islam. As a PhD candidate she was a PG Impact Fellow at the Centre of Religion and Public Life and PRHS Scholar.

She is founder of the Islam and Gender reads along in which she facilitates readings of academic texts penned by Muslim scholars in conversation with a global virtual audience and has recently been featured by Vogue Arabia, Refinery29 and The Independent. She is the author of a Treasury of Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Kube publishing) and, Gendering the Hadith: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford University Press). She is a contributor to Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration edited by Lia Shimada, Cut From the Same Cloth? Edited by Sabeena Akhtar, Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (Tilted Axis), and Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404Ink). You can connect with her on her Instagram @Sofia_reading where she talks about all things related to books, faith and academia.

    2:00 - 2:45 PM Fireside chat

    SUNDAY Sunday 3rd March

    Diaspora Dosti. Sabeena Akhtar in conversation with Dr Sofia Rehman

    Location: Hall 2

    What does it mean to be second generation children of immigrants? You don't have the story of leaving your people, language, your cultural context to build a new language nor can you claim that you made any sacrifices like your parents did. And yet your clothes and food and culture set you apart from your peers. You belong, but just enough. That is where those who have made the same journey become new friends in shared experiences. Many diaspora women share that it was the woman across the street with whom shared cups of chai became the bedrock of support in the years to come after migrating. In this conversation, two women from the UK diaspora will share their stories of finding each other amidst the mapping of self in a new place.
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