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 democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Being queen is overrated.
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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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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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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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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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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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