Shumaila Hemani

Shumaila Hemani (Shumailahemanivocalist@gmail.com), PhD in music, specializing in cultural policy on performing arts in the South Asian and Muslim world music and Islamic mystic poetry of tasawwuf, is a scholar and artist, known for her contributions to academia and the global music community. Currently an artist in residence at Trico Changemakers Studio, Mount Royal University, and formerly music faculty at Semester at Sea and Communications Faculty at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Extension, Hemani has been keynote speaker at conferences such as the University of Hawaii’s “Climate Change and South Asia” (2023) and is set to release a monograph in Routledge’s Islam and Human Rights series.