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Susan Carland writes on Islam and feminism - MLT, Australia
 "Orientalists writing on Islam and Muslims have tended to represent Muslim women as infantilised and oppressed, victims in need of rescue by the enlightened West. This is a classic example of the tyranny of self-projection, where the ''rescuer'' assumes a position of superiority so the belief systems, values and norms of Muslim women are judged against the Western experience..."
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Debbie Almontaser is one of the 100 Global Citizenship Awardees for "Leadership In Helping Humanity" - MLT, USA
 On February 28, 2010, Orphans International Worldwide will present awards to 10 Distinguished Awardees and 100 Global Citizenship Awardees for "Leadership In Helping Humanity". Debbie Almontaser, Founding Principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy is one of the 100 Global Citizenship Awardees for "Leadership In Helping Humanity".
MLTs Fatemeh Fakhraie, Zeba Iqbal, Wajahat Ali, Zeba Khan, and Shahed Amanullah, to speak on "Islam Today: New Media and Youth Culture in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia" at UC Berkeley - MLTs, USA
MLTs Fatemeh Fakhraie, Zeba Iqbal, Wajahat Ali, Zeba Khan, and Shahed Amanullah will speak at UC Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies in March 2010. "Islam Today: New Media and Youth Culture in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia" is a new collaborative program being organized by UC Berkeley's Centers for Middle Eastern Studies, South Asia Studies, and Southeast Asia Studies, with support from the Social Science Research Council, for 2009-2010.
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Shelina Janmohamed writes on opportunity, connections and government responsibility - MLT, UK
 "There are few concepts in the Muslim psyche that paint an image as vivid and forceful as the era of The Jahiliyyah, the Period of Great Ignorance, that preceded the advent of Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be a dark, ungodly, forsaken time when men and women believed in many deities, lived lives of tribal partisanship and warfare, showed immense racism, inflicted oppression on the poor and meted out gruesome treatment to women..."
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Asim Siddiqui writes a new Muslim professionals' mentoring scheme with British mosques and madrasahs - MLT, UK
 "Studies show that poor educational attainment and professional underachievement are prevalent amongst young British Muslims. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent development and social research charity, found that British Muslims are less upwardly mobile than their Hindu, Christian and Jewish counterparts. This trend appears consistent across Europe, where Muslims are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims..."
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