- Complete session: https://youtu.be/uYz6kt8Mr90
- On Prophetic Wisdom and Speaking to Children in Times of Distress: https://muslimmatters.org/2019/03/16/on-prophetic-wisdom-and-speaking-to-children-in-times-of-distress
- Dua & Dhikr for Palestine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11aNCzWMvh_cCqQbRoyoyvsy6yUPmak9r/view?usp=sharing
- Dua Nasiri Arabic Translation - The Prayer of the Oppressed - Imam Muhammad b. Nasir al-Dari: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ETuAHWg1ngx2ZXXJZbfGIdSdZLmjkZ1N/view?usp=sharing
- More Dr. Rania: http://mcceastbay.org/rania
- More sessions for Muslimahs: http://mcceastbay.org/women
- More talks in conjunction with The Rahmah Foundation: http://mcceastbay.org/rahmah-foundation
- More talks about Palestine: http://mcceastbay.org/palestinian

Dr. Rania Awaad dedicates her weekly Friday night women's program to sharing responses to the situation in Palestine, including strategies to talk to your children and their school, cope with your own feelings, and participate in a community dua (supplication) to relieve the suffering and onslaught that continues. She also offers a reflection on coping in difficult times.

This session was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on October 20, 2023.

Ustadha Rania Awaad
Raised in the U.S., Ustadha Rania Awaad began her formal study of the traditional Islamic sciences when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus, Syria, at 14. Her desire to continue studying the Deen resulted in multiple trips back to Damascus, interspersed between her high school, college, and medical studies. She was honored to receive Ijaazah (authorization to teach) several branches of the Shari’ah sciences at the hands of many renowned scholars, including many female scholars. She has received Ijaazah to teach Tajwid in the Hafs and Warsh recitations from the late eminent Syrian scholar Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. In addition to completing several advanced texts of the Shafi’i madhhab, she is licensed to teach texts of Maliki fiqh, Adab and Ihsan. Currently, Ustadha Rania teaches online and local classes for The Rahmah Foundation, Rabata, and is on the faculty of Zaytuna College, where she teaches courses in Shafi’i fiqh, women’s issues in fiqh, and has helped develop and co-direct the Tajweed and Hifz program.

Ustadha Rania is also a medical doctor with a specialty in Psychiatry. She completed her Psychiatric residency and fellowship training at Stanford University, where she is currently on the faculty as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department. Her medical interests include addressing mental health care concerns in the Muslim community- particularly that of Muslim women and girls. She has been awarded grants from the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) to conduct research on this topic and has presented her findings at several medical conferences. Other ongoing endeavors include compiling manuscripts addressing female-related mental health and medical issues from a fiqh-oriented perspective. She currently serves as the Director of the Rahmah Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches Muslim women and girls traditional Islamic knowledge. In this capacity, she also heads the Murbbiyah Mentoring Program, which trains young women to teach and mentor Muslim girls and teens. Ustadha Rania is both a wife and a mother; she has been counseling and teaching women classes on Tajwid, Shafi’i Fiqh, Ihsan, marriage, and raising children since 1999.

Learn more about Dr. Rania and her work at http://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/research/MuslimMHLab.html

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