Yasmin Barhum: Islamic Environmentalism

How do Islamic beliefs, environmentalism, and traditional lifestyles intersect in everyday practice? Yasmin Barhum, a landscape architect and facilitator at “Living in the Levant,” explores this question at the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development’s women’s seminar, “Between Faith and Ecology.” Drawing on her professional background in landscape architecture alongside her personal faith, Barhum examines how Islamic teachings shape her environmental values and connect to traditional ways of living that have long emphasized sustainability and harmony with the land. Her unique combination of professional expertise and lived religious experience offers a grounded, practical perspective on Islamic environmentalism, illustrating how faith, design, and traditional knowledge can work together to inform more sustainable lifestyles. Barhum’s talk contributes an important Islamic and professional perspective to the seminar’s broader exploration of faith, ecology, and women’s leadership in sustainability.

Yasmin Barhum, landscape architect and facilitator at “Living in the Levant,” discusses the connection between her beliefs in Islam, environmentalism, and traditional lifestyles at the ICSD’s women’s seminar “Between Faith and Ecology.” For more from Barhum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHTYfel6qcE&t=14s

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