Building Cultural Competency: Ramadan (April 2022)
What is Ramadan?
Inclusion and Equality
Inclusion and Equality
Gaining knowledge through a presentation, students learn to communicate effectively with differing cultures.
Inclusion and Equality
Inclusion and Equality
Inclusion and Equality
Ramadan is about sharing with generosity. Students learn these values, working together with harmony and respect.
Mutual Understanding
Inclusion and Equality
Mutual Understanding
Recalling what information was learned through the activity, each student completed a thoughtful reflection.
Your Magic Carpet
Inclusion and Equality
Mutual Understanding
Students design their own prayer mat / carpet using a template provided by Zanbeel.
How to use pictures to tell a story (May 2021)
Collective Learning
Comics Telling a Story
Comics Telling a Story
Curators Rashmi Viswanathan and Maryam Ghoreishi teaching workshop as part of programing for Mapping a Field, an online exhibition.
Comics Telling a Story
Comics Telling a Story
Comics Telling a Story
Artist Sanika Phawde from Mapping a Field.
Chahar-Bagh: The Four-Fold Garden ( October 2019)
Global Significance
Ignite the Imagination
Ignite the Imagination
Locating the travels of the Chahar-Bagh through South West Asia and North Africa towards Spain.
Ignite the Imagination
Ignite the Imagination
Ignite the Imagination
Imagining the sounds they hear, what they would plant, the life present in their garden.
Source of Energy
Ignite the Imagination
Tell Us Your Story
At the center of the garden is the water of life. For the garden to flourish, it must reach all parts of the garden.
Tell Us Your Story
Ignite the Imagination
Tell Us Your Story
Students draw the story of their own four-fold garden.
SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE (2017)
Intercultural Exchange
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exploring through Expression
Exposure to Transnational Histories
Exploring through Expression
Muslim Cultures Illuminated(2016)
Geometry In Nature (2014)
Student Letter Exchange (2013)
Your Loving Friend
Loving Friend Responds
Loving Friend Responds
60 Students in Pakistan wrote letters to students in Los Angeles.
Loving Friend Responds
Loving Friend Responds
Loving Friend Responds
60 Students in Los Angeles responded to the letters they received.
Urdu Script
Loving Friend Responds
Urdu Script
Some students in Pakistan wrote their letters in Urdu, how beautiful!