Conference Presentations

“The Secular Essence of Islamic Philosophy, Farabi and Abu Zayd.” Canadian Philosophical Association’s (CPA) Annual Meeting. 2026.

“The Right to Rebellion against Imam.” Emerging Challenges for Liberal Democracy. Queen’s University. 2026. upcoming. Link.

“Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: The Spinoza of Islam and the Secularization of the Scripture.” The Oxford Spinoza Conference, Oxford University. 2025. link

“Body as Political Entity.” Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association, University of Prince Edward Island. 2024. Link.

“Participatory Democracy and Headless Revolutions in the Middle East.” 3rd Bucharest Conference in Analytical Political Theory, Bucharest Center for Political Theory, University of Bucharest. 2023. Link.

“What is Digital Democracy?” Philosophy Café, Cape Breton University. 2023.

“Phenomenology against the Tortured.” North American Sartre Society Annual Meeting, virtual meeting. 2023. Link.

“Middle Eastern Existentialism.” The International Reception of Existentialism Conference, Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and Sartre Society in Germany, Vienna University. 2018.

“Existentialism and the Collapse of Values in the Middle East.” North American Sartre Society Annual Meeting, University of North Carolina. 2016.

“Incommensurability in Global Ethics.” Canadian Philosophy Association Annual Conference, University of Calgary. 2016.

“Moral Immorality: A Moral Dilemma between Muslims and the United States in 2012.” Centre of Ethics, University of Toronto. 2013

“Meta-Ethics and Normative Ethics in Islamic Philosophy.” Centre on Value and Ethics, Carleton University. 2014.