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Imam Dr. Hamid Slimi

Imam Dr. Hamid Slimi is a community developer, a teacher and a spiritual leader who has been serving Muslims in Canada since 1997. He is currently a professor of Islamic Studies at the Canadian Centre for Deen Studies and UIN university in Indonesia.  In addition to his traditional Islamic degrees known as Ijazah, he holds two Masters degrees with High Honors from Morocco and the United States, and a PhD in Islamic Law from the U.K. Dr. Slimi is the Imam and resident scholar of Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga, ON since 2009. He is also the former chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams.  Dr. Slimi has been featured by Georgetown ...

Uzma Jalaluddin

Uzma Jalaluddin writes a culture and parenting column for The Toronto Star. Her debut novel, AYESHA AT LAST, was published by HarperCollins to critical praise, and was nominated for several awards including the Toronto Book Awards and the Stephen Leacock medal. Uzma has appeared on Cityline, The Social, CBC radio and NPR, speaking about diverse literature and the importance of inclusive stories. In addition to writing, Uzma is a high school teacher in the GTA, where she also lives with her husband and two sons.

Mohamed Amery

Mohamed Amery is a Calgary-based lawyer with significant board, governance, and adjudicative experience. He is a partner at Linmac LLP where he focuses on business litigation and regularly appears before all levels of court. In addition to holding a Juris Doctor degree, Mohamed holds a Master of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Calgary. Mohamed is a commissioner on the Appeals Commission for Alberta Workers’ Compensation and a member of the Law Enforcement Review Board. Mohamed previously served as a board director of the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society including two years as Chair, and he has ...

Jasminka Kalajdzic

Jasminka Kalajdzic is an associate professor of law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.  She joined in 2009 after twelve years of private law practice as a civil litigator. Professor Kalajdzic served as Associate Dean in 2016-17. She completed both her LLB and LLM at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on access to justice, class actions, and legal ethics. Professor Kalajdzic has published two books and a number of recent peer-reviewed articles.  In July 2014, she was appointed to her second three-year term as a member of the Law Foundation of Ontario's Class Proceedings Committee, and in 2013, to the Law ...

Ahmed Ali (Knowmadic)

Award-winning Poet Laureate Ahmed Ali, better known as Knowmadic, is a multi disciplinary artist, community organizer, public speaker and youth worker from Edmonton, AB who has dedicated his time to enabling and empowering diverse communities around the world. Ahmed's poetry has been featured in anthologies in North America and is taught in schools across Canada. He is passionate about the arts, education and emphasizes the importance of equitable representation on all levels of government.

Khalid Tarabain

A prominent community leader and businessman from Edmonton, AB, Khalid Tarabain is president of the Canadian Islamic Centre (Al Rashid Masjid), the oldest established mosque in Canada, and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Edmonton Islamic Academy, a first-of- its-kind facility in North America to utilize both contemporary and Islamic architecture. Khalid is a co-founder of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities and he has been deeply involved in community work and interfaith engagement.  He is a recipient of both the Alberta Centennial Gold Medal and the Alberta Volunteers Award from the Government of Alberta honouring his ...

Laya Behbahani

Laya Behbahani is a Sessional Lecturer in Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University in Metro Vancouver, B.C.  She completed her Masters at the School of Criminology at SFU and is currently a PhD student at the School of Communications. Her research focuses on the narrativization of forced labour and human trafficking experiences in the Middle East. In 2020, Laya was a scholar and fellow at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Among her many professional activities, Laya previously worked at the Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria.  Laya is deeply active in her ...

Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin

Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin is a General and Colorectal Surgeon in Vancouver, BC.  He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Karimuddin is an active member of the Muslim Medical Association of Canada which represents the interests of Canadian Muslim physicians and advocates on healthcare issues. He is also an active philanthropist with Islamic Relief Canada.

Mustafa Farooq, JD

Mustafa Farooq is the former CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). A lawyer by profession, Mustafa completed his Juris Doctor at the University of Alberta and Osgoode Hall (York University) and later earned his Master of Laws (LLM) at UC Berkeley in California. He previously served as a senior political staffer to a provincial cabinet minister in which role he worked on various legislative and policy initiatives. Mustafa was also a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School researching countering violent extremism policy in Canada. His book entitled Law, Politics, and Countering Violent Extremism (Routledge) is forthcoming. He ...

Abbas Kassam

Abbas Kassam is a Toronto-based lawyer involved in many community-based initiatives. He previously served on the NCCM Board of Directors. He clerked at the Federal Court of Canada and began his career with a labour, employment and human rights law firm. Currently, Abbas practices in the area of intellectual property litigation. He obtained his Law degree from the University of Toronto.