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2008 Global MLT Conference in Doha, Qatar
The 2008 Global MLT conference is scheduled for October 18th and 19th in Doha, Qatar. We are very excited about our next MLT conference and will be in touch soon with more details!
Book Release: Ayse Turgut
Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur'an and its Creative Expressions, edited by Fahmida Suleman, is published by Oxford University Press and will be available sometime next month in major bookstores everywhere.
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Job Announcement
*Several Doctoral Research Fellowships (incl. Islam and the Islamic World), University of Oslo*
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MLTs around the world
Highlighting some of the MLTs and their work
H.A. Hellyer E-mail:
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick (UK) & Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford (UK).
Full Bio Here
Ndeye Andujar E-mail:
 Vice President of Catalonian Islamic Council in Spain, works both in media and education. She has published many newspaper articles (in Spanish and French), and often participates in radio interviews and TV debate.
Full Bio Here
Sherin Khankan Email:
MLT from Denmark, is an author, lecturer, activist, columnist, and public speaker. She has an M.A. in Sociology of Religion and Philosophy from University of Copenhagen where she specialized in contemporary Islamic activism in Europe and the Middle East.
Sherin Khankan, MLT from Denmark, wrote the Muslim Manifesto in 2005. It was published in a Danish newspaper in 2006, during the cartoon crisis in Denmark.
To see Muslim Manifesto click here (pdf)
www.Khankan.dk
www.mesopotamia.dk
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MLTs in the News
 Mounir Azzaoui, MLT from Germany, was interviewed by a major Moroccan newspaper, Assabah, about his work in the Green Party. He is chairman of the "Green Muslims" in the German Green Party. He is also the spokesman for the Working Group on Constitutional Issues, German Islam Conference. The article is in Arabic. Unfortunately, we do not have an English translation yet.
Article [pdf, Arabic]
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Events
Book Launch: Islam and the Secular State, March 11, 2008
Salaam alaykum dear friends,
I've just moved to Manhattan in order to build an exciting program at New York University. It’s called the Moral Courage Project, and it aims to develop young leaders — Muslim and non-Muslim -- who will challenge conformity in their own communities for the sake of a greater good. Our motto is: “Individuality that serves Community.”
Our first event will be held on the evening of Tuesday, March 11. I'll be engaging Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im, one of the Muslim world’s most maverick thinkers. We’re launching his book, Islam and the Secular State, in which he argues that "we need a secular state to be better Muslims.”
Please come, ask questions and join in the celebration of a Muslim whose work is as bold as it is faithful. Click on the link below to read more details and to RSVP:
http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/moralcourage.php
Look forward to seeing many of you there!
From Irshad Manji, New York, USA
Policy Roundtable, March 12, 2008
We are delighted to be able to invite you to the Policy Roundtable to discuss the emerging findings and policy proposals for the British Muslim women and the labor market project.
The event will be hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on Wednesday 12 March, 14.30-17.00. Directions for the IPPR (London office) can be found at the web link below:
http://www.ippr.org/contacts/
The project has been commissioned by the London Development Agency and the report will be jointly published by The Young Foundation. As British Muslim women are the most disadvantaged group in the labor market the project objective is to deliver an evidence-based policy analysis report detailing the situation facing British Muslim women and the labor market, focusing on employment, unemployment, inactivity and workplace progression.
The project focus areas are London, Leicester and Manchester as they have significant British Muslim populations from a variety of ethnicities. The main themes highlighted by the analysis requiring policy interventions to increase the labor market participation and progression for British Muslim women are:
- Accessibility and connectivity to the labor market - including through education, mentoring and coaching
- Raising accessibility and delivery of soft skills - through building confidence, addressing and overcoming barriers within the Muslim community and from the labor market
- Building and raising aspirations - through broadening horizons and creating avenues for bridging networks between students, out-of-work and in-work Muslim women and employers to help raise and realize employment and progression aspirations
- Addressing and tackling discrimination - through identifying what forms it may take, what gaps it creates for students, graduates, the unemployed, the inactive and the employed
Please confirm your attendance by emailing at zamila1@yahoo.co.uk. If you are not able to attend please feel free to forward the invitation to a colleague working in this field.
From Zamila Bunglawala, London, UK
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