Najeeba Syeed

Najeeba Syeed is the inaugural El-Hibri Endowed Professor of Interfaith Studies and Executive Director of the Interfaith Institute at Augsburg University. She is a tenured and full professor of religion and the first Muslim woman to have been awarded tenure at Augsburg University.

Syeed has been a professor, expert practitioner, and public speaker for the last two decades in the fields of conflict resolution, interfaith studies, mediation and restorative justice. An award-winning educator and mediator, she has taught extensively on interreligious education and published articles on faith and community-based conflict resolution, restorative justice, and interfaith just peacemaking. She co-edited the groundbreaking book, “Experiments in Empathy, Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education.” In 2026 she published her first book of poetry and theopoetics, Dreaming Lost Bodies Back, a collection on grief, loss, and spiritual resilience in times of violence.