Harvard Club of OttawaHarvard Club of Ottawa
Join us on Feb 21 for an evening of art and culture! This free event will begin at 5:00 and will include a tour of the Ottawa Art Gallery, a talk from our own Dr. Sheema Khan on Mathematics, Spirituality and Art in the Islamic World, and a social.
About the speaker: Dr. Sheema Khan (AM ’87, PhD ’89) holds both an A.M. in Physics (’87) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (’89) from Harvard, where she served as a Resident Chemistry Tutor at Lowell House for 4 years. She has been a Globe & Mail columnist since 2002, writing on such topics as reconciling Muslim practices with Western principles. A collection of her columns was published in her book “Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman”. She co-founded the Toronto-based think tank The Tessellate Institute and The Family Honour Project in London (Ontario), which is devoted to eliminating honour-based violence in Canada and abroad. She is currently a Board Member of the United Nations Association in Canada, a Director of the Harvard Club of Ottawa, and a life-long fan of the Montreal Canadiens.
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