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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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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Fighting Media Rights
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
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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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Loses Sleep Worry
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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Being queen is overrated.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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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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Distrust Doubt People
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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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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