Getting through together: Islamic education values for challenging times

Qur’an recitation, followed by the main talk by Dr Fella Lahmar entitled ‘Getting through together: Islamic education values for challenging times’.

Dr Lahmar is the Course Leader for the MedIslamic Education: New Perspectives programme at Markfield institute of Higher Education. She worked as a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham examining the complexities of international/transnational Higher Education and its links to politics in different contexts.

Dr Lahmar obtained her PhD in Education from theUniversity of Nottingham in2012 exploring diversity and development in Muslim schools in Britain. She has taught at different Muslim schools in England and Saudi Arabia. She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research combining Western and Islamic theoretical approaches to engage with the emerging issues in areas of research interest and expertise.