Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi

Dr. Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai was born in Baghdad and spent her childhood in Iraq and Lebanon. She holds a PhD in Islamic studies. She completed her Arabic, Islamic and ethnological studies at the Universities of Vienna and Cairo. Fawzia Al-Rawi has been teaching Sufism for over 20 years. She holds workshops in various countries and she has published several books in Arabic, German, English and French. Fawzia Al-Rawi’s workshops, classes and training courses are based on knowledge drawn from psychology, spirituality, cultural anthropology and medicine. They are underpinned in particular by a body of knowledge known as Sufism, which has been collected and passed down over centuries, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Dancing, meditation, breathing techniques, traditional Sufi-practices such as zikr, whirling or working with the Divine Names all focus on opening the heart and embedding oneself into the great universal laws, beyond egocentric and social norms, connecting body, soul and spirit. In Vienna she set up a center for female spirituality, where seminars, workshops and personal support on the path to self-discovery are offered. More information can be found on : http://www.haus-des-friedens.at/ueber-uns/haus-des-friedens/zentrum/