HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies students hold community dialogue event – The Peninsula

HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies students hold community dialogue event – The Peninsula

Graduate students of the Master of Arts in Islam and Global Affairs program at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), recently organised a community dialogue initiative at Doha’s Innovation Café.

The students shared their Integrative Lab (I-Lab) research projects, which span topics of contemporary relevance and aim to contribute to scholarship on the place of Islam in the context of global affairs. The event led to an inspiring discussion, exchange, and fruitful engagement with members of the public as well as their families who joined the session.

The I-Lab course is one of the unique features of the Islam and Global Affairs MA program, aiming to build theories of change to identify and advance solutions to economic, social, human, and environmental challenges encountered in Muslim societies. Students are supported with creative design, thinking tools, and production platforms that help them work on and develop solutions to global problems.

Nine students posted their Theories of Change designs around the Innovation Café – which offered the creative space to create, connect, and collaborate. During short presentations, the students conveyed the rationale behind their models and how they contribute to the Muslim world and global society in general.

Saad Khodr’s model focused