Rania Awaad

Rania Awaad is an Egyptian-American psychiatrist at Stanford University, where she is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and directs the Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab. Before medicine she pursued classical Islamic studies in Damascus and holds ijazas including one in all ten canonical Qur'anic recitations. ¹

She is the President and Co-Founder of Maristan, a holistic mental health nonprofit serving Muslim communities, and serves as its Executive Director. She was previously the founding Clinical Director of the Khalil Center's Bay Area branch and the first female Professor of Islamic Law at Zaytuna College. ^{1 2}