I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANExtremism 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 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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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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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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