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Author: Dr. Seema Yasmin and Zahra Noorbakhsh in Conversation

Friday, 3/4/2022
2:00 - 3:00
Virtual Library

United States

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A celebration of Muslim Women are Everything, a collection of riveting, inspiring and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity and strength of Muslim women both past and present. A not-to-miss discussion with two amazing women, Dr. Seema Yasmin and Zahra Noorbakhsh. 

 

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Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications.

 

Zahra Noorbakhsh is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American comedian and cohost of the award-winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. The podcast was listed as a “must listen,” by Oprah Magazine and was invited to the Obama Whitehouse to record an episode. Noorbakhsh is a Sr. Fellow on comedy for social change with the Pop Culture Collaborative. In addition to her two sold-out performances of her stand-up comedy special “On Behalf of All Muslims” at the Golden Thread Theater in San Francisco, her solo performance of “All Atheists are Muslim: A Romantic Comedy,” was originally directed by CNN’s W. Kamau Bell.  


 

Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. She is the recipient of two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her reporting appears in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American and other outlets. 

 

Yasmin is a fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House writing workshops. Her poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets Vol 3: Halal If You Hear Me, New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, The Georgia Review and others. 

 

Her scholarly work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation, the growth of medical and news deserts and the impact on public health. She teaches creative nonfiction including health and science journalism, global health storytelling, practicing medicine with empathy and compassion and advanced clinical communication skills.

 

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Dr. Seema Yasmin - Website | Dr. Seema Yasmin - Twitter | Dr. Seema Yasmin - Instagram


Zahra Noorbakhsh - Website | Zahra Noorbakhsh - Twitter | Zahra Noorbakhsh - Instagram

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