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Zeba Khan is runner-up in The Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” competition - MLT, USA
Zeba Khan was voted runner-up in The Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit,” a competition that attracted nearly 5,000 entries. Zeba competed against the other nine prospective pundits in a series of challenges, including writing and blogging on deadline, coming up with ideas, and responding to questions in real time on video. In the final round, Zeba secured 4,062 votes and Kevin Huffman led with 4,622.
Thank you to all MLTs for their votes!
Zeba Khan during the video challenge
Read Zeba’s original entry in The Washington Post
New York MLTs host Muslim-Jewish dialogue during Weekend of Twinning (November 16-19)
Dalia Mahmoud, Hussein Rashid and MLT Program Director, Rushda Majeed co-hosted an interfaith dialogue with Generation R, an initiative for Russian-Jews. The event included screening of Cities of Lights: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain followed by an animated discussion on Islamophobia and anti-semitism.
Read The Jewish Week Article about the event.
Saadia Qamar writes on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Recent Visit to Pakistan – MLT, Pakistan
“With the hope of turning a new chapter in the relations between the United States and Pakistan, Mrs. Clinton’s recent visit to the South Asian nation was filled with promise. Change, on the agenda of President Obama since well before coming to power, revealed itself in Secretary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan…”
Read MLT Article
Raheel Mohammed is behind the launch of www.maslaha.org – MLT, UK
Maslaha is a new web-based organization which aims to provide a greater understanding of Islam and its practices for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.Raheel Mohammed, MLT from UK, is leading the “Maslaha Project.”
Visit Maslaha
Riem Spielhaus speaks about the integration of Muslims in Europe (PBS) – MLT, Germany
 “People who live here since forty, fifty years, were born here in the third generation, are understood as foreigners, are understood as immigrants while they are not. They just have a different faith. So this debate leads to people thinking about their neighbors as problematic because they do have a different faith…” View Interview on PBS
Zeeshan Suhail writes on “What do a Billion Muslim Think?”– MLT, USA
 “What do one billion Muslims really think? Between 2001 and 2006, Gallup, a Washington, D.C.-based news organization that conducts public opinion polls, completed the largest study of Muslim populations worldwide…”
Read Patheos.com Article
Omar Haroon speaks on friendship, mistaken identity and interfaith (NPR) – MLT, USA
“Omar Haroon and David Weiner are two friends who met through the NewGround program. Omar is Muslim and David is Jewish, and what I appreciate about their conversation is the sense of coinciding conflict and kinship it gives…”
Listen to Omars’ Interview on NPR
Reem Al-Alusi speaks on Islamic culture and Renaissance at the San Francisco Arab Cultural and Community Center – MLT, USA
“Scholar Reem Al-Alusi discussed the impact of Islamic culture on the arts of the Renaissance in a Jan. 8 presentation at San Francisco's Arab Cultural and Community Center. The Cambridge University graduate holds a master's degree in the history and philosophy of Islamic architecture and specializes in the influence of Islamic architecture on the Italian Renaissance and High Baroque..."
Read Full Article
Read other coverages: Washington Report and Society for Asian Art
Shelina Janmohammed writes about a post-veil society (Emel)– MLT, UK
“Earlier this year, the head of Al-Azhar Islamic university found himself in agreement with Italy's extreme right-wing Northern League, the BNP's anti-immigration anti-Islam stance and Turkey's rampantly secular constitution. The subject was the veiling of Muslim women, a topic that makes for unlikely bed-fellows…”
Read Full Article on Shenila’s blog Spirit21
Hisham A. Hellyer writes about Switzerland’s minaret ban (The Daily Beast) – MLT, UK
 “The referendum in Switzerland against the building of minarets is unlikely to stick without a legal challenge—a challenge that may take it to the European Court of Human Rights. It breaks several points in Swiss law and the European Charter of Human Rights about the freedom of religion and expression—but that in itself makes the referendum's result that much more serious…”
Read Full Article on The Daily Beast
MLTs among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World
Georgetown University's The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre recently published its first edition of the 500 Most Influential Muslims 2009. You can see the full report here.
MLTs in the list include:
Susan Cartland, Australia
Fatima Shawqi, Bahrain
Zarqa Nawaz, Canada
Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Italy
Naif Al Mutawa, Kuwait
Rajae El Mouhandiz, Netherlands
Sheikh David Munir, Portugal
Muna Abu Sulayman, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Nassir, Singapore
Sarah Joseph, UK
Shenila Zehra Janmohamed, UK
Ahmed Younis, USA
Hady Amr, USA
Ali Ardekani, USA
Eboo Patel, USA
Ilyasah Al Shabazz, USA
Shamil Idriss, USA
Imam Khalid Latif, USA
Mohamad Chakaki, USA
Shahed Amanullah, USA
Azhar Usman, USA
Please visit Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow to learn more about these MLTs.
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