MONA HAYDAR

Speaker · Chaplain · Rapper · Poet · TV Host · Spiritual Director · Activist

Bring Mona Haydar to Your Event

Mona Haydar is one of the most sought after voices and globally recognized Muslim artists. She is a chaplain, rapper, poet, spiritual director, television host, educator, and activist whose work brings together faith, art, spirituality, justice, identity, culture, and belonging.

She is a speaker and performer who has been invited to leading institutions and organizations, colleges, universities, churches, interfaith organizations, conferences, cultural institutions, and community gatherings all over the world.

She can give an incredible keynote, perform poetry, screen her television work, lead a writing workshop, facilitate spiritual activism workshops, participate in a panel, offer a spiritual reflection, or sit down for an intimate conversation with an audience.

Bring Mona to your campus, congregation, conference, organization, or community.

EVENTS WITH MONA

🎤 KEYNOTES

Mona delivers compelling keynotes that combine storytelling, spirituality, humor, cultural insight, and lived experience.

Possible keynote themes include:

Faith Amidst Difference
Spirituality & Social Justice
Art as Resistance
Muslim American Identity
Religion, Identity & Belonging
Women, Faith & Power
The Sacred Work of Listening
Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
Finding Your Purpose
Connecting with the Qur’an
Why Good Theology Matters
Islam and the Future
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
Building Community
From Rap to Chaplaincy
Faith, Culture & Activism
Finding Purpose in a Complicated World
Standing Up to Injustice
Fear & Grief
Hope in Times of Crisis
Navigating Great Loss
The Sacredness of the Mundane
Art For The Sake of God
Beyond the Stereotypes
Hijab
Liberation Theology
Interfaith Dialogue

Keynotes can be followed by audience Q&A or conversation.

🎬 SCREENINGS & CONVERSATIONS

Mona can host screenings of her television work, including The Great Muslim American Road Trip, Or the Secret Life of Muslims for a shorter event followed by a live conversation and audience Q&A.

A screening event can explore:

Muslim life in America
American religious history
Faith and identity
Interfaith relationships
Travel and storytelling
Representation in media
Family and belonging
What it means to be American
The stories we tell about one another

Screenings can be presented at:

Universities · Colleges · Churches · Mosques · Interfaith Organizations · Libraries · Museums · Film Festivals · Cultural Centers · Community Organizations

A screening can also be paired with a keynote, panel, performance, or workshop.

🎙️ POETRY & PERFORMANCE

Mona is a rapper, poet, and multidisciplinary artist.

Her performances bring together poetry, rap, spirituality, storytelling, humor, and social commentary.

Performance events can be:

A standalone poetry performance
A concert
Poetry + conversation
Performance + keynote
Performance + panel
Art + spirituality event
Cultural festival performance
Campus performance
Faith community gathering

Mona’s artistic work explores identity, faith, feminism, justice, love, belonging, resistance, and the sacred.

✍️ WRITING WORKSHOPS

Mona leads writing workshops that invite participants to explore their own stories through poetry, reflection, creativity, and personal narrative.

Workshops can focus on:

Writing to Know thy Self

Who are we, and what stories have shaped us?

Writing as Resistance

How can writing help us name injustice, reclaim our voices, and imagine something different?

Spiritual Writing

Using writing as a practice of reflection, meaning-making, prayer, and connection.

Poetry & Personal Story

Turning lived experience into language, image, rhythm, and story.

Writing To Heal

Exploring how storytelling can help us heal.

These workshops can be adapted for students, educators, artists, faith communities, activists, young adults, or general audiences.

🕊️ SPIRITUAL TALKS

Mona is a chaplain and spiritual director who creates space for audiences to explore the deeper questions of being human.

Spiritual talks can explore:

Meaning
Purpose
Faith
Doubt
Grief
Love
Hope
Belonging
Community
Spiritual practice
Justice
Compassion
The sacred
What it means to care for one another

These conversations can be explicitly Muslim, interfaith, broadly spiritual, or tailored to the tradition and goals of the hosting organization.

✊🏽 SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM WORKSHOPS

What happens when spirituality moves beyond personal reflection and becomes a way of engaging the world?

Mona’s spiritual activism workshops explore the intersection of:

Faith + Justice + Community + Action

Participants may explore questions such as:

What does our spirituality ask of us?
How do we turn our values into action?
What does justice look like in everyday life?
How do we sustain ourselves while doing difficult work?
How can activism become a spiritual practice?
How do we organize without losing our humanity?
How do we build movements rooted in love rather than burnout?

These workshops can be adapted for students, activists, faith communities, nonprofit organizations, educators, and community leaders.

💬 CONVERSATIONS

Sometimes the most powerful event is simply a good conversation.

Mona is available for moderated conversations and fireside chats about:

Faith
Islam
Art
Music
Spirituality
Activism
Motherhood
Identity
Feminism
Chaplaincy
Media
American culture
Interfaith relationships
Community
Belonging
Justice
Creativity
Life and meaning

A conversation can be intimate and personal or designed for a large public audience.

🗣️ PANELS

Mona is available as a featured panelist or moderator for conversations around:

Religion & society
Islam in America
Interfaith dialogue
Women and religion
Art and activism
Spirituality and social justice
Media representation
Race and identity
Culture and belonging
Faith and politics
Young adults and spirituality
Creativity and social change
Community building

🎓 CAMPUS EVENTS

Mona is an especially dynamic guest for colleges and universities because her work crosses academic disciplines and popular culture.

A campus visit can combine several experiences in one day:

Morning: Classroom visit or guest lecture

Afternoon: Writing or spiritual activism workshop

Evening: Keynote, performance, or screening

Afterward: Student Q&A or reception

Possible campus partners include:

Muslim Student Associations
Interfaith Centers
Chaplaincies
Religious Studies
Theology & Divinity
Women’s & Gender Studies
Sociology
Philosophy
Middle Eastern Studies
Africana Studies
Arts & Humanities
Student Affairs
Diversity & Inclusion
First-Year Programs
Student Leadership

⛪ CHURCH & FAITH COMMUNITY EVENTS

Mona can join churches and faith communities for conversations about faith, difference, hospitality, justice, spirituality, and building relationships across religious traditions.

Possible formats include:

Keynotes
Spiritual talks
Interfaith conversations
Women’s gatherings
Young adult events
Retreats
Workshops
Panels
Screenings
Poetry and performance
Community conversations

Her approach is rooted in curiosity, deep listening, spiritual practice, and the belief that encountering difference can deepen—not diminish—our own humanity.

🤝 INTERFAITH EVENTS

Mona’s work is particularly suited to interfaith communities.

She can facilitate or participate in events exploring:

Muslim-Christian relationships

Religious pluralism

Interfaith friendship

Faith and social justice

Women and religion

Islamophobia and representation

Religious identity

Art as a bridge between communities

Building relationships across difference

Spirituality and community

The goal isn’t simply to teach people about another religion.

It is to create opportunities for people to meet one another as human beings.

🌎 CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS & CULTURAL EVENTS

Mona can bring a combination of intellectual depth, artistic performance, spiritual reflection, and cultural storytelling to conferences and public events.

She is available for:

Keynotes
Opening or closing addresses
Panels
Moderated conversations
Performances
Workshops
Screenings
Artist talks
Fireside chats
Conference sessions

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY VOICE

BOOK MONA

Whether you’re planning a university keynote, church gathering, interfaith event, conference, poetry performance, television screening, writing workshop, spiritual retreat, or community conversation, Mona can create an experience tailored to your audience.

Available for:

Keynotes · Screenings · Poetry & Performance · Writing Workshops · Spiritual Talks · Spiritual Activism Workshops · Conversations · Fireside Chats · Panels · Guest Lectures · Campus Visits · Interfaith Events · Conferences · Retreats

INVITE MONA TO YOUR EVENT

Mona has been invited to speak and perform at institutions and organizations including Harvard University and universities, colleges, faith communities, cultural institutions, and organizations across the United States and internationally.

If you’re looking for a speaker or artist who can bring together faith, creativity, spirituality, justice, culture, and connection, Mona would love to hear from you.

For speaking, performance, screening, workshop, and event inquiries:

[BOOKMONAHAYDAR@GMAIL.COM]

Please include your organization, event date, location, audience, desired format, and any particular themes you’d like Mona to explore.

LET’S CREATE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL

The best events don’t simply give people something to hear.

They give people something to feel, question, remember, and carry with them.

Mona Haydar creates those kinds of spaces and that kind of energy.

Let’s make something meaningful together.