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AZIZA ABDEL‐HALIMAziza Abdel‐Halim, AM, is the President of the Muslim Women’s National Network of Australia (MWNNA), an academic, well‐respected teacher and accomplished public speaker. Her contribution to the Australian community has not gone unrecognised. She is a very proud recipient of the Order of Australia Medal and in 2005 she was chosen to be a member of the Prime Minister’s Muslim Community Reference Group. She is described by The Australian as “Australia's most prominent female Muslim leader” (21/3/2007). The Muslim Women’s National Network of Australia (MWNNA) began as a community centre where Aziza and her husband taught Arabic and English lessons. These days the MWNNA still sponsors language classes, however it also provides support and sisterhood between Australian Muslim women of all ethnic backgrounds. This has become increasingly important to women who feel demonized in the current political climate. The network has taken on the important role of representing the views of Muslim women to the media, federal, state and local government. Aziza and other members of the network also regularly organise cross cultural and interfaith events to educate the wider community about Islamic issues and break down the barriers to social harmony. MAJ OR PUBLI CATI ONS Did you know? : refuting rigid interpretations concerning the position of women in Islam and Muslim's interaction with non‐Muslims – Downloadable from: http://www.mwnna.org.au/didyouknow.pdf Excellent source on other prominent men and women thinkers and activists (see end of book) Article on Federation of Ethnic Community Councils of Australia website http://www.fecca.org.au/Snapshot_200705_01.cfm HANIFA DEENHANIFA DEEN is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Muslim Minorities at Monash University. An award‐ winning Australian author of Pakistani‐Muslim ancestry who writes narrative nonfiction and lives in Melbourne, Deen has held a number of high‐profile positions in a career spanning twenty‐three years in human rights, ethnic affairs, and immigration, including: Hearing Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia; Deputy Commissioner of Multicultural Affairs Western Australia; and a Director of Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Corporation. She now works full‐time as a writer, which she sees as “the perfect medium for a woman with an irreverent tongue, a maverick‐Muslim perspective on life, and a passion to subvert stereotypes wherever they lurk”. She has described how one of her grandfathers was a Kashmiri who jumped ship in Melbourne, while the other was a Punjabi hawker who came in the wake of the Afghan camel drivers, who helped to facilitate access to the Australian interior. Her non‐fiction books have focused on issues concerning Muslims. Her first book, Caravanserai, portrayed the lives of Australian Muslims. Her second book, Broken Bangles, focused on Muslim women in South Asia (Pakistan and Bangladesh). The Crescent and the Pen described the journey of Taslima Nasreen, the author of the controversial novel Lajja ("Shame"), after she fled Bangladesh for Europe. COM ME NT The Age ‐ A hatred of Islam will not aid reform http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a‐hatred‐of‐islam‐will‐not‐aid‐ reform/2007/05/31/1180205422227.html ABC Radio National: The Ark ‐ Travels Among Australian Muslims http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/ark/stories/s949099.htm MAJ OR PUBLI CATI ONS A Question of Boundaries: A Close Encounter with Victoria's Vilification Law – Centre for Muslim States and Societies UWA http://www.cmss.uwa.edu.au/fulbright_symposium/ms_hanifa_deen
Irfan Yusuf (born 1969 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a New South Wales‐based lawyer with a practice focusing on workplace relations and commercial dispute resolution. He is also a regular media commentator on a variety of social, political, human rights, media and cultural issues. He has appeared on local and national radio and TV in Australia and New Zealand. His opinion pieces and book reviews have been published in over 15 national, metropolitan and regional newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Brunei. He was winner of the 2007 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues He is associate editor of AltMuslim.com, and is also a regular contributor to Crikey.com.au, NewMatilda.com and Malaysiakini.com. He also is a regular speaker and has delivered seminars for organisations such as the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre and the Institute of Public Administration of Australia. MAJ OR PUBLI CATI ONS Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo‐Fascist, 2009. Allen & Unwin. COM ME NT Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society‐and‐culture/muslimphobia‐is‐so‐entrenched‐that‐its‐gone‐beyond‐ a‐joke‐20100429‐twes.html ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2895960.htm Online Opinion Author http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=3933 New Matilda http://newmatilda.com/contributor/2952 Unleashed http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2071037.htm Webdiary http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=blog/267 The Age Opinion Online http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/by/irfan‐yusuf AltIslam http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/c_iyusuf Main Blog http://madhabirfy.blogspot.com/ MOHAMAD ABDALLADr Mohamad Abdalla is the Founding Director of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit (GIRU), Brisbane, Australia; Director of the Queensland node of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Australia's leading Islamic studies centre, a multi‐million dollar centre funded by the Australian Federal Government; Senior Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, one of the premier research centres in Australia; Associate Investigator with Australia's first Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security; and Convenor and Senior Lecturer of subjects including: Islamic Law in a Changing World, Great Texts of Islam and Islam and The Making of Europe. Additionally, he was the Chairperson of the Queensland Government Muslim Community Reference Group , an advisory group to the Queensland State Government; Vice‐president and spokesperson for the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), Australia's leading Islamic religious organisation; and Acting Imam of the Kuraby mosque in Brisbane, Australia. WEBSI TE http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts‐languages‐criminology/griffith‐islamic‐research‐unit/staff/dr‐mohamad‐ abdalla
Rane, Halim, Ewart, Jacqui & Abdalla, Mohamad (eds.). Islam and the Australian News Media. (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2010). COM ME NT ABC Radio National – The Religion Report 30 March 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1339992.htm ABC Radio National – The Religion Report 28 March 2007 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1883247.htm Directory: sites -> default -> files -> documents -> 01 2014 documents -> Ace abi catair customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements documents -> Mobile audio/video recording systems documents -> The south australian government gazette documents -> All public acts appearing in this gazette are to be considered official, and obeyed as such documents -> Union interparlementaire inter-parliamentary union 01 2014 -> Voices Shaping the 01 2014 -> Muslim Voices – Hopes and aspirations of Muslim Australians Centre for Muslim Minorities & Islam Policy Studies 01 2014 -> Editors: Kerry Download 16.24 Mb. Share with your friends:
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