Peer Talks

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#PeerTalks with Naima Hassan on "COVID-19 and Mental Health"  

Naima Hassan is a renowned Mental health professional, Trauma counseling expert. Naima has provided stress counseling services in more than 15 countries, Having more than two decades of practicing experience in trauma counseling, Stress Counselling, family n marital counseling. She is the author of more than 200 articles, an expert in conducting training on different topics.  

#MentalHealth #COVID19  

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#PeerTalks with Seth J. Vogelman on Abrahamic Accord - Treaty of Peace  

Seth J. Vogelman is currently the Director, Trade for Atid, EDI, a business consulting firm located in Jerusalem, Israel.  

The firm’s leading clients include Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, New Mexico, and Ukraine, for whom the company serves as their Middle East Regional Office.  He is responsible for the daily coordination of local office activities in Israel, Turkey, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, North Africa, the Arabian Gulf, Pakistan, and Egypt.  

To this end, he helped to create and maintain a national and regional marketing system for the promotion of American exports.    

Mr. Vogelman also produces The Fortnightly, a newsletter on economic and business development in Israel and the Middle East that is distributed internationally.  Mr. Vogelman has experience in both the construction field and on collective agricultural settlements, where he was extensively involved in organic/biological agriculture.  As a citizen of Israel, Mr. Vogelman is a retired Captain (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces, having served with the I.D.F. Spokesperson.  

He is also the president of the American Civil War Round Table in Israel. He currently resides in Maale Adumim, Israel  

#AbrahamicAccord #Israel

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#PeerTalks with Nameera Raja, Ruhani Barkat, and Hiba Ikram about "Aurat March" on International women's day  

Namira Raja is Mental Health Worker and Counselor, she is Gold Medalist during her Master's in Psychology. Currently working as a counselor with different channels and Public Relations Executive with Pakistan Sweet Home Islamabad. Coming from an interior area of Sindh Jacobabad, she always had an urge to change the mindsets and stereotypical thoughts of the area by giving physical and mental awareness to them.  

Roohani Barkat hailing from Gilgit Baltistan has completed her graduation in Economics and currently working at S& Global.  She has been actively volunteering with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and Youth & Women for Peace and Dialogue (YWPD). Currently, under S&P Global’s Corporate Social Responsibility, she is part of the Million Women Mentors (MWM) Program taskforce.   

Hiba Ikram, a Generation Change Fellow of USIP (United States Institute of Peace), is a social sciences graduate and a development professional. Hiba is Vice President of an NGO, ‘Beydaar Society,’ co-runs a digital media venture, ‘Opportunity Nest’.  She is a passionate peace activist and has worked for the cause on various platforms.  

#AuratMarch #InternationalWomensDay  

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#PeerTalks​​ with Dr. Moshe Terdiman on Environment and Islam  

Dr. Moshe Terdiman is an expert on environmental security in the Arab and Muslim world and in Africa as well as on religions and the environment and interfaith environmental collaboration. Currently, Dr. Terdiman is a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and the Ezri Center for Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He is also the co-founder and director of the Institute for Environmental Security and Well-being Studies and the founder and director of the Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa.   

#Environment​​ #Islam  

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Insights to U.S. Govt Exchange programs in Pakistan -  #PeerTalks with Lisa Swenarski  

Lisa Swenarski Cultural Affairs Officer   

Lisa Swenarski arrived in Islamabad as the Cultural Affairs Officer in June 2019, after completing a master’s degree program at the Air War College.  In her 18-year career with the State Department, she has served in New Delhi, Kabul, Jeddah, Cairo, Quito, and Managua.  Before joining the Department, she was the director of the press office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.  

She is a San Francisco native and earned her bachelor’s from San Francisco State University in journalism and a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  Her spouse, Alan Herrera, is an eligible family member in the Facilities Section, and they have one adult daughter.  

#USA #ExchangePrograms  

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#PeerTalks on "Ali Sadpara" with Mazoor Ameen  

Muhammad Ali Sadpara (born February 2nd, 1976) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was part of the team that successfully achieved the first-ever winter summit on Nanga Parbat in 2016. Both his teammates, Alex Txikon and Simone Moro, have gone on record stating that they could not have done it without Sadpara's brilliance. He had successfully climbed four eight-thousanders in a calendar year and a total of eight in his career.   Sadpara and his son, Sajid Sadpara, who had climbed K2 in 2019, teamed up with Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjónsson, and Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto, for a joint K2 ascent, leaving the highest camp on the evening of February 4th, 2021. Sajid had to come back because of a technical issue leaving the others at the Bottleneck, close to the summit. His father, Snorri and Mohr kept climbing up, but they didn't come back by night as planned. A rescue mission with two army helicopters was organized on February 6th. The three climbers are still missing.  

Manzoor Ameen (A student of tourism and youth activist), is a neighbor of Ali Sadpara and explains his bond with Ali as a Chota Bhai (Younger Brother).  

#AliSadpara #K2 

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#PeerTalks with Irina Tsukerman on "Iran and the USA"  

Irina Tsukerman is the Vice President of Timberwolf Phoenix LLP, a US-based media, security, and defense consultancy. She is a human rights lawyer and national security analyst, who had graduated from Fordham University with degrees in International/Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies, and received her JD from Fordham University School of Law. Irina is also an adviser to the London-based International Justice Organization, a spokesperson for the Gulf Israel  Human Rights Forum, and the secretary of the New York-based cultural organization Moroccan Americans in New York.  Irina has written and commented extensively on information warfare, geopolitics, US foreign policy, and MENA for a variety of domestic and international media and think-tanks; she has briefed members of Congress on foreign policy issues, including Iran, security, and human rights; and her work has been translated to Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Chinese, and Russian.  

#Iran #USA  

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#PeerTalks​ with Dr. Moshe Terdiman on Religions and Environment  

Dr. Moshe Terdiman is an expert on environmental security in the Arab and Muslim world and in Africa as well as on religions and the environment and interfaith environmental collaboration. Currently, Dr. Terdiman is a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and the Ezri Center for Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He is also the co-founder and director of the Institute for Environmental Security and Well-being Studies and the founder and director of the Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa.   

#Environment​ #Religions 

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#PeerTalks with H.E. Abdul Kadir Ibrahim on "Understanding Somalia"  

Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Ibrahim Baghdadi is an intellectual who holds a master's degree in Islamic Philosophy. He comes from a leading Sufi family of Somalia. Baghdadi held many political and administrative positions.  

- Minister of State for Presidential Affairs - 2018. 

- Minister of State for Justice and Judicial Affairs - 2017 

- Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs - 2015 

- Deputy Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Culture – 2011.    

- Director-General of the Ministry of Justice and Judicial Affairs 

- 2008, and Director of Religious Affairs and Endowments 

- 2005. He is also a member of the Somali Federal Parliament since 2009.  

#Somalia #Sufism 

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#PeerTalks with Tajdar Zaidi on " Marsiya"  Marsiya is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain ibn Ali (A.S.) and his comrades of the Karbala.  

Tajdar Zaidi is a narrator/storyteller/voiceover artist who has a regular appearance on different media forums. He co-founded Qissakhwaan in 2014 to promote storytelling and literature. He has a special interest in Marsiya Goi as a genre of Urdu Adab.  

#Marsiya #TajdarZaidi  

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