Please join us on April 13th for Northstar School’s 12th Annual Fundraising Dinner, featuring delicious food, moving presentations by our students, insightful remarks by our very special speakers, and a glimpse of the inspiring work that this blessed school is doing to help our children flourish into their full amazing potential.
FLOURISH
Unlocking the Potential of Our Children
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 5:30 pm
with
IMAM ZAID SHAKIR (Zaytuna College/New Islamic Directions)
SHAYKH JIHAD HASHIM BROWN (Tabah Foundation)
USTADH ABDULLAH BIN HAMID ALI (Zaytuna College/Lamppost Productions)
along with presentations by Northstar students
at the Fremont Marriott
46100 Landing Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538 (Map)
DETAILS:
– Tickets: $35, dinner included ($40 at the door)
– Pre-registered childcare available (ages 3-10): $15 per child
– Program includes buffet dinner, performances by students, and presentation of “The Praised One” national poetry contest winners.
– Full table premium reservation (10 seats) available for $350.
Pre-registration is now closed.
Please purchase your tickets at the door of the event. We look forward to seeing you there.
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For more info: email info@northstarschool.org, or call 510-441-1665
Shaykh Jihad Hashim Brown is trained in Islamic legal theory, theology, and the philosophy of religion. He is currently serving as an academic research consultant in Abu Dhabi, UAE. After receiving degrees in Psychology and Near East Studies from Rutgers University, New Jersey, he went on to pursue Islamic Studies with prominent religious authorities in Syria and Morocco. He holds an advanced graduate degree from the University of Cambridge in Philosophical Theology. He has worked extensively with Muslim communities in the United States and Europe and is regularly consulted by governments and institutions in the West and the Middle East on culture and international relations. He travels widely, teaching and lecturing in the service of engaging classical jurisprudence and theology with the contemporary age, and appears frequently on numerous satellite television programs in the Middle East, including the BBC and CNN.
ABOUT NORTHSTAR SCHOOL
Northstar School is a K-8th grade Islamic school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2002, Northstar has grown from a student body of 7 students, to one of over 130 diverse and eager, young Muslim learners. Northstar has earned a reputation as a pioneer and role model in Islamic schooling, employing a range of cutting edge and time-tested educational methods. With a dynamic curriculum that integrates classical Islamic sciences with a first-rate academic program, Northstar aims to nurture the “mind, body, and spirit” of its children.