Peer Talks

LOUD THINKING  

#PeerTalks with Mohammad Mahdi on Iran - Israel Relations. 

Mahdi is an Iranian activist who finished his Master of Art in World Studies and follows contemporary politics in west Asia and the North Africa region, especially in Palestine. He is also well-known for his studies in Pahlavi-era Iranian revolutionary groups' history.  

Mahdi cooperates with Unified Ummah NGO focusing on Palestinian culture and history and their relationship with Iran and Iranians.  

#Iran #Israel

#PeerTalks with Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute (USA)  

Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author, and international advocate emphasizing legal, spiritual, ethical dimensions of #peace and #security, focusing on the rule of law to address global challenges especially threats posed by #nuclear weapons. Numerous governing and advisory boards including Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, Parliamentarians for Nuclear #Nonproliferation and #Disarmament, and Middle Powers Initiative. Recipient of the Rutgers University School of Law’s Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award and a 2014 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Senior Advisor to the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates and its Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, former Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University School of Law, and Chair of the Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Senior Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.  Fellow World Academy of Arts and Science. Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Gave Birth to a Nation and a prolific author. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on numerous radio and television programs and has presented expert testimony to the Parliaments of Canada and the United Kingdom, US Congress, and the United Nations. Mr. Granoff earned his BA (cum laude) from Vassar College and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law. Since youth studied with #Sufi Saint Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and honored with his namesake as Ahamed Muhaiyaddeen.

#PeerTalks with Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin 

Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin began her academic career after receiving a doctorate in comparative literature, with a focus on the Islamic literature of medieval Spain – Ahadith of the Moriscos. She has a tremendous interest in the coexistence of the three Abrahamic faiths. A graduate analyst of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and a PTSD trauma expert, she taught and supervised psychiatry residents in Minneapolis, where she had a private practice. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, she was contacted by the U.S. Army concerning her work on the link between the devalued female and the jihadi suicide attack and was invited by the military and law enforcement to lecture on radical Islam and conduct prison interviews among the Somalis in Minnesota. She is also a graduate of the Human Terrain Program, Leavenworth, Kansas, which is affiliated with the U.S. Army. In 2010, Dr. Kobrin is an internationally renowned counterterrorism expert ― emigrated from the Twin Cities to Israel, where she continues her work. She is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy. Dr. Kobrin holds an academic appointment as an external expert at La Universidad de Granada concerning Jihadese, the special nonverbal pantomime language that the Jihadis speak related to early childhood trauma in the maternal attachment. She has authored The Banality of Suicide Terrorism (also in Hebrew), Penetrating the Terrorist Psyche, The Maternal Drama of the Chechen Jihadi, The Jihadi Dictionary [soon to be published in French) and The Last Two Jews of Mogadishu Living under Al Shabaab’s Fire.  

#Israel #Pakistan #Culture #Society #Peace #Conflicts #Terrorism #Solutions

#PeerTalks with Wilma van der Maten 

Wilma van der Maten (Netherlands 1964) is a journalist, writer, and anthropologist. After a career of twenty years as a correspondent for the Dutch and Belgium Media, she has started with village tourism in Pakistan.  Her book about Sufis and transgenders was recently published in the Netherlands. 

 #Journalist #Netherlands

#PeerTalks with Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah. 

Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah is an Islamic Religious Scholar well known in the Muslim community in the UK for his contributions towards world poverty alleviation and welfare for the needy around the globe. 

 In 1993 as a response to Bosnia unrest he formed and lead a group of Muslims in Nottingham UK and sent the first of many aid shipments. 

 There he started Muslim hands a world relief organization with an objective to alleviate poverty through quality education and income generation projects.  

In his spiritual leadership, Muslim Hands today has grown to be one of the UK's foremost charities. Its work encompasses 40 countries, with field offices in over 20, and it spends annually in excess of £7,000,000 on projects ranging from disaster relief and medical aid to education and tree plantation. Millions of people across the globe have and continue to benefit from the work MH carries out.  

Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah has a passion to help the needy and do the best which can be done to improve and transform lives.  

#MuslimHands #SocialWork

#PeerTalks with Dr. Hadi Mirzaei (IRAN) 

Expert on Sufism and Religion 

 #Sufism #Iran

PeerTalks with Peer Syed Mohyuddin Mahboob Hanfi Qadri 

Custodian of the Holy Shrine of Mahboobabad Shareef Havelian

PeerTalks with Dr. Ata ul Mustafa Jamil Rathore  

Renowned Scholar, Director H.K. Islamic Academy

PeerTalks with Wisi Baba 

Journalist, Blogger, Influencer

PeerTalks with Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah Chairman of Muslim Hands International UK  Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah is an Islamic Religious Scholar well known in the Muslim community in the UK for his contributions towards world poverty alleviation and welfare for the needy around the globe.  In 1993 as a response to Bosnia unrest he formed and lead a group of Muslims in Nottingham UK and sent the first of many aid shipments.  There he started Muslim hands a world relief organization with an objective to alleviate poverty through quality education and income generation projects.  In his spiritual leadership, Muslim Hands today has grown to be one of the UK's foremost charities. Its work encompasses 40 countries, with field offices in over 20, and it spends annually in excess of £7,000,000 on projects ranging from disaster relief and medical aid to education and tree plantation. Millions of people across the globe have and continue to benefit from the work MH carries out.  Pir Syed Lakhte Hassanain Shah has a passion to help the needy and do the best which can be done to improve and transform lives.