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Muslim Awareness Week 2025 at McGill
A Week to get to know each other!
Muslim Awareness Week (MAW) is a yearly week of solidarity and exchange where people of all ages, backgrounds, and beliefs are invited to learn about the achievements, contributions, aspirations and concerns of Quebecers of Muslim faith.
Join us for the seventh edition of MAW starting .
This bridge-building week has been created to celebrate Muslim identities and educate the public to help prevent hate crimes against this minority and create a better 鈥渧ivre-ensemble鈥� within Quebec society.
2025 Events:
Screening of the short movie Pluri'Elles听
Date: January, 28th from 5:30 to 7:30
Location: McCall MacBain Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 150
Please RSVP for this Event*:
Celebrating Muslim Women - La parole aux Qu茅b茅coises Musulmanes
The film Pluri'Elles follows the careers of six young Quebecer Muslim women working in different professional fields. Through their testimonies, they share their challenges and successes, as well as their relationship with their faith.
*If you have trouble with registration please reach out to听farah.chouayakh [at] mcgill.ca.
Watch the trailer of the film .
Commemorative Lecture - 2025 National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City mosque attack and action against Islamophobia
Date: January, 29th from 3:30
Location: Robert Vogel Council Room, Leacock 232
In 2022, the Federal government designated January 29th as a . On January 29th听2025, McGill will commemorate the 8th sad anniversary of this tragedy.
Commemorative Lecture: Trajectories of Hate: Remembering Quebec City in a time of Rising Islamophobia
By Professor Nadia Hasan, assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies and Director of the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University.
This commemorative lecture marks eight years since unspeakable hate and violence was visited upon the CCIQ mosque in Quebec. Eight years later, the survivors of this vicious attack courageously continue their journey to heal - even in the face of rising Islamophobia, legal and bureaucratic challenges that resurrect traumas, and novel methods of targeting and dehumanizing Muslim communities around the world. Through an analysis of recent incidents of hate, discrimination and the curtailment of civil liberties, this lecture reflects on trends in evolving forms of Islamophobia, Muslim community responses to these trends, and the trajectory of this social and political climate in Canada.
Derived from this tragedy is the . The colour green represents the green carpet inside the mosque where the shooting took place. It also symbolizes the hope that each of the six victims will have found themselves in a better place 鈥� a green garden 鈥� in the afterlife. Come and pick your Green Square during the commemoration.
The event is open to all members of the McGill community and welcomes the participation of the general public.
Panel Discussion - The Era of Law 21: Impacts on Muslim Women and the Making of a New Normal
Date and time: Friday, January 31 路 4:30 - 7pm EST
Location: 香蕉视频 - Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street听
Please RSVP for this Event*:
On January 31st, 2025, join us in welcoming Prof. Nadia Hasan, Me Fr茅d茅ric B茅rard and Idil Issa for a bilingual interdisciplinary panel discussion moderated by Me Cee Strauss on the material impacts of Law 21 and the making of a new normal.
*If you have trouble with registration please reach out to farah.chouayakh [at] mcgill.ca.
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