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 JORDANOf course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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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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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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