Jawaid, a 26-year-old urban planner, environmentalist and artist living in the District, directs Green Muslims, a group seeking to make love for the environment a mainstay of Muslim communities. Jawaid is also an editor for altmuslimah.com, a website devoted to exploring gender issues within Islam. Jawaid came to D.C. from California, where she earned an undergraduate degree in public policy from the University of Southern California and master’s degree in urban planning from the University of California, Irvine. She spoke to The Washington Examiner via email about her passion for nature and art. Do you consider yourself to be of a specific faith?
I’m a Muslim. The most beautiful part of my faith to me is the concept of tawhid, unity, or the oneness of God. This concept allows me to reflect on how everything I experience on a given day is from him, from the leaf that falls from a tree onto my hand to the sound of my heavy breathing sprinting down a hill.
