ABOUT TUBANUR YESILHARK OZKAN

Tubanur holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Durham University, UK. Her Thesis was on Theodicy and the Problem of Evil in Islam.

Her book with the title “A Muslim Response to Evil: Said Nursi on the Theodicy” has been published by Routledge in 2016. She furthermore penned a Subject Guide on Islam for Heythrop College, published in 2013 and wrote a book review for the journal ‘Reviews in Religion & Theology’.

Tubanur has taught at King’s College (University of London) and at Winchester University.

She graduated in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations (MA) from Hartford Seminary, USA.

During her studies, she worked as the assistant of the Director of Public and Institutional Affairs of Hartford Seminary in recruitment activities, media and public relations, the coordination of educational outreach events, including registration processing and hospitality.

Furthermore, she was actively engaged at the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, a regional non-profit organization that brings together Muslims in Connecticut to provide an understanding of Islam and Muslims through education and outreach.

Tubanur is committed to interfaith dialogue since 1998. Since then, she gave several lectures on Interfaith understanding and Islam at many occasions such as high schools, churches, universities and seminaries in Germany and in the US.

Tubanur has translated several books from Turkish into German. One of the translations, “Auf der Suche nach sich selbst” (In search of oneself) has received an accolade from the Ministry for Education in Austria.

Tubanur was scholarship holder of the Merit Scholarship from Hartford Seminary, the Hartranft Scholarship Fund, and the Studienwerk Klaus Murmann, Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft. Furthermore, she received the 2008 Celie J. Terry Prize, awarded for academic achievement and Inter-faith action in the community.

Currently, Tubanur is working from home, writing articles while being a mother of two kids, aged 1 and 4.