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APPENDIX TWO: PROFILES OF SELECTED POLITICAL & ACADEMICCOMMENTATORS ABDULLAH SAEEDProf. Abdullah Saeed was born in the Maldives and holds degrees from Australia and overseas. He has a BA in Arab/Islamic Studies from Saudi Arabia, MA in Applied Linguistics and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia. In 1993, he joined the then Department of Asian Languages and Anthropology at the University of Melbourne as a Lecturer, rising to Senior Lecturer in 1996 and Associate Professor in 2000. He was appointed Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies in 2003. Prof. Saeed has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Among the subjects he teaches are: Great Texts of Islam: Qur’an; Muslim Intellectuals and Modernity; Great Empires of Islamic Civilization; Islamic Banking and Finance; Qur’anic Hermeneutics; Methodologies of Hadith; Methods of Islamic Law; Religious Freedom in Asia; Islam and Human Rights; and Islam and Muslims in Australia. He is involved in interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims, and between Jews and Muslims, and is a frequent and popular lecturer. He travels widely and has visited several times, for instance, North America, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He has a wide range of professional and research relationships around the world. WEBSI TE http://www.abdullahsaeed.org/ COM ME NT The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20650767‐601,00.html MAJ OR PUBLI CATI ONS Muslim Communities in Australia (UNSW Press 2001) Others listed on his website. AMEER ALIDr Ameer Ali is currently a Lecturer in Economics at the Murdoch Business School. A Visiting Fellow at the School since 2004, Dr. Ali has previously been a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Universities of Brunei Darussalam and Western Australia, and was formerly a Lecturer in Economics at Murdoch University (1980‐ 86). He is a graduate of the University of Ceylon, the University of Western Australia, and the London School of Economics. A widely‐published academic writer, Dr. Ali has a special interest in the economic and socio‐ economic development of Islamic societies, in contemporary relationships between Islam and politics, and in the Muslim diasporas in Australia and the West. He is the author of From Penury to Plenty: Development of Oil Rich Brunei, 1906 to Present (1996), and since 1999 has been an Associate editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Ameer Ali is a former President (2002‐2006) of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils and Chairman of Prime Minister’s Muslim Community Group, and is the current Vice‐President of the Regional Islamic Dawa Council of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (RISEAP). WEBSI TE http://www.mbs.murdoch.edu.au/dirs/9153.html COM ME NT Interview on The Religion Report – ABC Radio – 11 October 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1760378.htm ALIA IMTOUALDr Alia Imtoual is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Flinders University (Australia). She writes about religion and faith identities of Muslims in Australia, the intersections of race, gender and religion, and the institutionalisation of racism relating to religious minorities. She is the co‐editor (with Basia Spalek) of Religion, Spirituality and the Social Sciences (2008, Policy Press) and the co‐author (with Shakira Hussein) of 'Challenging the myth of the 'happy celibate' (forthcoming, Contemporary Islam). She is also the author of "De‐Orientalising Methodologies: towards an articulation of a research agenda for working in/with Muslim communities", Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion (forthcoming 2009) Eds. Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. WEBSI TE S http://bioknowledge.flinders.edu.au/alia%20imtoual‐bio.pdf http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehlt/education/staff‐list/alia‐imtoual.cfm COM ME NT Interview, Reflections and Insights: The Gender, Violence and Protection Workshops and Forum, in Borderlands journal, VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1, 2009 MAJ OR PUBLI CATI ONS Religious Racism and the Media: Representations of Muslim Women in the Australian Print Media http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume13/imtoual SHERENE HASSANSherene Hassan is the vice‐president of the Islamic Council of Victoria. To this date she has conducted over 500 information sessions on Islam to diverse audiences ranging from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus School to the Australian Federal Police. She is heavily involved in interfaith dialogue and is one of the media spokespeople for the Islamic Council of Victoria. In 2005 she was elected chairperson of the Jewish Christian Muslim Association Conference Committee. In February 2007, she was the recipient of an award for excellence in community service; presented by FaCSIA (Department of Family, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) and in December 2007, Sherene was selected by the Age newspaper as one of Melbourne’s100 Most Influential People. Formerly a chemistry and physics teacher, Sherene is married with four children. COM ME NT ‘Islamophobia is a disease’, Sherene Hassan, Herald Sun, 20 June 2007 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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