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Keynote: Iftekhar Hussain
Iftekhar Hussain is engaged in local interfaith educational initiatives with a focus on ‘Islam and the Middle East’ and ‘US Foreign Policy and the Muslim World.’ He has developed a 10-part course titled ‘Understanding Islam and Muslims through History and Jurisprudence’ and has taught it at churches, synagogues, mosques and local county night schools. He has presented this course at over 40 different venues over the past 15 years.
Performance: Siedd
Siedd is a young Canadian-Pakistani Muslim singer-songwriter and producer raised in Mississauga. His family moved to Canada when he was at the age of two. As a child, he had an interest in poetry and music. In 2008 his family moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario where he began playing the guitar at the age of 14 and began to write and produce his own music. In July 2016, he began his own YouTube channel where he would post originals and renditions of other artist’s songs which frequently involved rewritten lyrics with faith based themes. Siedd’s music features acapella arrangements created using layered vocalizations and hand claps. His faith-based music videos have garnered over a million streams on YouTube and other streaming devices. He has performed in Philadelphia at Muslim City Fest for the last several years. Siedd aims to bring people back to their faith traditions through his music and we hope that his performance will be a spectacle.Â
"We are committed to presenting a festival whose performers and organizers are as racially and ethnically diverse as the great metropolis they call home. And as a consequence of this goal of diversity, all events at the Festival will be available without tickets, so that all who visit one of the many Festival venues can do so for free."
We firmly believe this festival can make a positive impact on interfaith understanding, especially in a region founded upon the creed of religious tolerance. By celebrating our cultural differences, the festival challenges the purveyors of bigotry and hate, and seeks to strengthen the bonds between different communities of faith by fostering mutual understanding across religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Your sponsorship will demonstrate your commitment to these ideals. Â Your support will make this festival and all the events associated with it free-of-charge and open to the public.Â
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