It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThere are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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I don’t believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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