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Leena El-Ali

Independent Scholar & Businesswoman
Bona Smarts LLC
Country or state 
United States (Virginia)
Available to 
Global
City 
Arlington
Fee 
Languages 
English,
Arabic,
...
Volunteer
No
Timezone 
America/New_York

Personal Details

Bio

Leena El-Ali is author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller "No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights", published in 2022 to scholarly and lay acclaim around the globe.

A strategic thinker by nature, Leena has been an award-winning fund manager, an investment banker and a social entrepreneur in a career spanning over 30 years. She has worked with a number of international, non-profit organizations across South and South-East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa in several areas including conflict mitigation, governance and peacebuilding; and Islam and democracy, human rights and women’s rights. From 2005 to 2012 she was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Common Ground News Service, commissioning constructive op-eds for Muslim-Western understanding and distributing them worldwide in six languages. Since 2013, she has provided advisory and consulting services in international affairs, development and investment to a variety of clients.

Leena is committed to greater inter-spiritual understanding in our fractured world, and to shining a light on the spirituality that lies at the heart of all religions. Educated primarily in Beirut as well as in England, Leena speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish and is a British-American citizen.

Current position (2)

Independent Scholar & Businesswoman

Bona Smarts LLC

Author

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Podcast, 2024
Podcast, 2024
Not Disobeying God
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Books & Articles (4)

No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur’an, and Women’s Rights
Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature,
2021
Commentary in Wilson Center’s Women Driving Positive Change in the Middle East (2017)
Op-Ed: "Is the Qur’an hostile to Jews and Christians" (2009)
Op-Ed: "Social Values, not Religion, at Heart of Muslim Protests" (2012)

Expertise (18)

Social & Political
Leadership
Other
Gender equality Islam Peace Building pluralism Cultural and social factors Coexistence and Peace International Women Empowering Women comparative religion theology and religion spiritual Creativity and Spirituality Faith & Spirituality Practical Spirituality Spiritual Development

Clients

International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Northwestern University - Qatar
Boston College
AT&T
American Dream Revisited Conference
Eram Saeed Live podcast
Jamali.Love podcast
Maryland Emergency Management Agency
Montgomery County, MD
Villanova University
Roosevelt University
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Why choose me? 

Women's issues & spirituality in the Qur'an critical to gender equity, social justice & peace.

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