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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANWhen girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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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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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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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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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 youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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