Professor Bakht’s scholarship is devoted mainly to bettering the practical realities of women’s lives. She works actively to strengthen awareness and understanding, and to promote dialogue, for the rights of religious minorities in Canada. Her work counters misconceptions about Islam and particularly Muslim women. Professor Bakht is also an Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer who uses a hybridity of forms to tell the stories of diversity and resistance. Her award-winning dances express multi-dimensional narratives of difference, beauty and identity. In producing an original body of dance works that reflects her unique path, she has expanded the contours of Canadian dance.
This prestigious municipal award was created in 2012. Recipients of the Order of Ottawa are chosen by a selection committee composed of the Mayor, the City Clerk, the Chief of Police, the Chief of Protocol, the City Archivist and the Chief Executive Officer of the Ottawa Public Library.
The Order of Ottawa Awards Ceremony will be held this year at City Hall on November 3, 2022.
Congratulations to Professor Bakht!