Modernity is not about dress codes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI’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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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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Being queen is overrated.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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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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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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