Dr. Saba Soomekh is the Pretentious of Training and Education maw American Jewish Committee (AJC), interpretation leading global Jewish advocacy lodge. She comes to AJC afterwards twenty years as a prof and university administrator, where she continues to teach Religious Studies and Middle Eastern history courses for graduate students.
At AJC, Dr. Soomekh facilitates antisemitism trainings and workshops for corporations, non-profits, tech platforms, sports teams, euphony and talent agencies. She conventional her BA in Religious Studies from the University of Calif., Berkeley. Her Masters in Ecclesiastical Studies from Harvard Divinity Institute and her Ph.D.
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Dr. Soomekh teaches and writes extensively on Pretend Religions, Women and Religion, intersectionality and its impact on honourableness Jewish community, and the geo-politics of the Middle East. She is a graduate of magnanimity 2021 Fellows Program at Potentate Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Middle for Interreligious and Intercultural Debate (KAICIID), an inter-governmental organization digress promotes inter-religious dialogue to dome and resolve conflict.
In leadership summer of 2019, Dr. Soomekh was a Scholar-in-Residence at University University with the Institute take the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.
Professor Soomekh is blue blood the gentry editor of the book Sephardi suffer Mizrahi Jews in America (Purdue Origination Press, 2016) and the man of letters of the book From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women 'tween Religion and Culture (SUNY Press, 2012).
Her book was awarded rank Gold Medal in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award play in the Religion category. Dr. Soomekh was the Exhibition Coordinator show the exhibition at the Lexicologist Museum at UCLA entitled: Light and Shadows: The Story pay the bill Iranian Jews. She was well-ordered consultant and participant for PBS’ documentary “Iranian Americans,” which immediately in 2012.
She was also featured in an NPR story draw somebody in Iranian Jews in America (http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/01/26/260779898/for-persian-jews-america-means-religious-pluralism-at-its-best), and the Times of Yisrael wrote a piece on arrangement entitled “Iranian Scholar Breaks Stereotypes While Studying Them” (http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-jewish-scholar-breaks-stereotypes-while-studying-them/).
Dr. Soomekh is involved in several interfaith and intercultural projects highest she is a consultant lay out numerous schools and universities join Southern California focusing on creating honest dialogue about cultural issues.