Najeeba Syeed
@najeebasyeed.bsky.social
Peacebuilder, Professor of Interfaith Studies /Executive Director. Poet. Views here my own. Poetry collectiom. Dreaming Lost Bodies Back. @wipfandstock 2026
Today with Christian. Jewish, Muslim, and other faith communities showed up for our Somali American neighbors at Jum’ah prayer at local mosque, because this community has shown up for so many of us. And we would do this for any neighbor of any background Minnesota is a place of hospitality and hope
Marking the poems I will be performing tonight 🫶🏼 @moonpalacebooks at 7 pm tonight thanks @reentrylab for a great line up of artists! #poetry #minneapolis
I will be performing from my new book of poetry this Tuesday, Oct 6 with a great group of poets as a featured artist for ReEntry Lab. Also in support of a great cause, Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis. #poetry
I will be performing from my new book of poetry this Tuesday, Oct 6 with a great group of poets as a featured artist for ReEntry Lab. Also in support of a great cause, Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis. #poetry
It took a philosopher colleague to get me to write a book on theopoetics! Check out his book too that he is holding in pic. Thanks to scholar and hip hop artist Dr.Jon Gill for sticking with me as an editor. And for the invite to Aesthetic Religion Records & Texts, his amazing performance space
4 years ago in Sep the Board of Regents approved my tenure and rank of full professor ! What an honor it still is, and to be the first Muslim woman at my institution with tenure and at full professor rank. And that this is a historically Christian institution is not lost on me.
Pls join me for an unforgettable night of poetry and social change in Minneapolis, performing from my new book #dreaminglostbodiesback
Davi Gray (she/they)@davigray.com · 3w agoCome see @najeebasyeed.bsky.social next month 🤩
Come see @najeebasyeed.bsky.social next month 🤩
ReEntry Lab@reentrylab.org · 3w agoNajeeba Syeed (she/her) - Najeeba’s first book of poetry, Dreaming Lost Bodies Back, was released a few months ago. She writes about lineages of loss and resilience. She is a professor of religion here in Minneapolis. (Alt text embedded.)
St Peter friends bringing my book new book of poetry Dreaming Lost Bodies Back to you next week. My editor, scholar and hip hop artist Jon Gill is hosting. Free and open to public 👉🏼Sept 26, 4 pm 👉🏼 AESTHETIC RELIGION 123 South Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082
Please join us on Tuesday, October 6th, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic artists: @bridgetgordon.gay, Wordsworth Musinguzi, Marquise Bowie, KJ Kieras, and @najeebasyeed.bsky.social, followed by an open mic. 1/4
#dreaminglostbodiesback my new book of #poetry made it to New Mexico and helped me open a day long session today for faith leaders of many traditions from around the country gathered in retreat. I read poems and shared them as a healing practice. Poetry after all is a spiritual practice #interfaith
A room with a view, with Christian, Muslim. Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, Indigenous and Buddhist leaders in Santa Fe for the week in retreat to build our own hearts and connections with one another. #interfaith
Dreaming Lost Bodies my new book of poetry helped me close my training this weekend with a poem on a slow burn instead of burn out was a great way to close for higher ed professionals from around the country.
I ❤️ this from one of my participants. I’ve spent 3 days co facilitating five sessions for Interfaith America Leadership Summit. We had abt 30 universities represented in the room Faculty, staff and administrators This to me is the central question, how do we get to deep difference, deep divisions?
View for next few days : ) Guess where presenting at a national conference
On my way to Interfaith America leadership summit, co leading five sessions on campus pluralism, am a BRAID mentor and we are bringing 8 teams from campuses around the Midwest who are in our Emblem program to the summit this year! See you soon in Chicago #traveL #interfaith
On my way to Interfaith America leadership summit, co leading five sessions on campus pluralism, am a BRAID mentor and we are bringing 8 teams from campuses around the Midwest who are in our Emblem program to the summit this year! See you soon in Chicago #traveL #interfaith
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Thanks to everyone who has been buying Dreaming Lost Bodies Back! We’re actually selling pretty well for a book of poetry. I am the worst at promoting it but getting better and grateful for everyone who reminds me that our art is worth talking about.
Armed with Boba… Planning my fall Interfaith Scholars course Augsburg University !We cover Muslim, Christian,Jewish,Indigenous, Hindu,Buddhist,humanist ethics & practices of care.Students get into community to see how houses of worship in Minneapolis address issues like care for unhoused neighbors
I will be continuing my appointment as a Interfaith Fellow at University of Minnesota in 25-26 academic year. Do reach out if you wish to connect !
4 years ago in this month I joined Augsburg University ❤️ as a faculty member, endowed chair and executive director ! #work #professor #interfaith #minneapols I went on to become the first Muslim woman to be awarded tenure at the university. Grateful for the opportunities !
My favorite and hardest postcard I recorded this year ! www.augsburg.edu/interfaith/2... Also super cool that it’s a weekly faith podcast supported by our local Minneapolis CBS affiliate!
Podcast Interview - Interfaith at Augsburg - Augsburg University
Prof. Najeeba Syeed was interviewed on the podcast Bigger Than Belief with Adam Duxter, produced by WCCO, the local Minnesota ...
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Why reading still matters. Having edited a whole book on interreligious empathy, a reminder to me as well that fiction also plays a role in addition to religious literacy through traditional means of religious texts, analysis and scripture. #interfaitb
Repost Chautauqua Institution We continued our Interfaith Lecture Series with Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri Endowed Chair and executive director of the Interfaith Institute at Augsburg University.She delivered a powerful lecture focused on conflict resolution in community, higher ed,govt &other settings
Sports again bringing us questions and dialogue on belonging and collective and individual identity #worldcup
10 years ago 😭 the best time and amazing faculty colleagues who became friends and a long long text chain Monica A. Coleman Grace Y. Kao
