Holding the 1st session of Weekly Webinar on Empowering Muslim Women- By Dr Alireza Kazemi- Friday 25/02/2022

Holding the 1^st session of weekly webinar on “Empowering Muslim Women”

In an era where so many of people are working or studying from home and have more flexible timetables, Islamic Centre of England is holding few live interactive discussions in different speaker and topics such as weekly webinar on “Empowering Muslim Women”.

The weekly webinar on Empowering Muslim Women is held live every Friday at 4:30 p.m. on virtual networks such as Zoom, YouTube and Facebook.

The 1^st session of this webinar, which was held on Friday, 25^th February, 2022, at 16:30, dedicated its topic to the following subject:

“How Digital Technologies are Changing your Mind”

In this meeting, which was addressed by Dr Alireza Kazemi, he spoke for 40 minutes on the subject of the meeting.

Dr Alireza Kazemi got his Ph.D. and M.A. from the Centre for Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. He obtained his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Tehran Polytechnic. Kazemi’s research areas include philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of information technology. He is also interested in ethics and philosophy of religion. Kazemi has been a senior researcher at Cyberspace Research Institute (2020-2021), lecturer at Sharif University of Technology (2021) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (2021-now). His research is published in Philosophical

Explorations, Act Analytic, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review and Sophia, among others.

At the second part of the meeting in the Q&A section, the meeting’s moderator, HIWM Seyed Amin Shamaei, read the questions raised by the participants in the meeting and the speaker answered them.

The session, which lasted 60 minutes, ended at 17:30.