{"id":18934,"date":"2002-10-16T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2002-10-16T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:37:30","slug":"sheikh-spiritual-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/10\/16\/sheikh-spiritual-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Muslim woman describes peace pilgrimage to Afghanistan in Spiritual Journey series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamshad Sheikh, Muslim chaplain at Mount Holyoke College, will discuss her experiences in a Bates College lecture titled <em>From Pakistan to Afghanistan via the United States: A Muslim Peace Pilgrim&#8217;s Journey<\/em>, at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend this discussion, part of the &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03&#8221; series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain, free of charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Sheikh received her bachelor&#8217;s degree from Karachi University, a degree in Islamic law from SM Law College in Karachi and a master&#8217;s degree from the American International College in Springfield, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>An educator and human rights activist, Sheikh traveled in December 2001 to a refugee camp on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan to &#8220;bear witness to the suffering of Afghani women.&#8221; Of her journey, she has said: &#8220;This was from my heart. They have suffered simply for being women, and I had to see that with my own eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh will discuss the findings from her journey, including what she discovered about herself as a Muslim woman who advocates for the well-being of her sisters and brothers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamshad Sheikh, Muslim chaplain at Mount Holyoke College, will discuss her experiences in a Bates College lecture titled From Pakistan to Afghanistan via the United States: A Muslim Peace Pilgrim&#8217;s Journey, at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend this discussion, part of the &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03&#8221; series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain, free of charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,224],"tags":[624,4484,9491,11648],"class_list":["post-18934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-society-culture","tag-afghanistan","tag-islam","tag-middle-east","tag-religion-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92630,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions\/92630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}