{"id":1887,"date":"2014-08-29T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2020-04-21T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:27:52","slug":"highlights-of-the-2014-law-and-leadership-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/highlights-of-the-2014-law-and-leadership-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of the 2014 Law and Leadership Summer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is with great happiness that we present our 12th class of the Law and Leadership Summer Program. Though we miss them, we are excited about their next steps. They are a talented group of leaders, and we are sure that they will affect substantial change in their respective communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy, gave commencement remarks to the graduating LLSP class. Mr. Shelton made comments on the current state of civil rights and justice in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The day before graduation, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Executive Director of  the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and former U.S. Ambassador for Global Women\u2019s Issues, spoke about the need to promote women\u2019s rights all over the world. \u201cWomen\u2019s rights are consistent with Quranic values that protect women and advocate for their education and well being,\u201d she said. \u201cEducated women advocate for rights, build a network\u2026and help other women raise their voices successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ambassador James Jones, the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, a recognized leader in the fields of law, government and business shared his experience with LLSP participants. He spoke about political leadership. Ambassador Jones noted that, as a leader, you should \u201cdo your homework, know your adversaries, and judge your circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imam Mohamed Magid is Director of All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va. and former President of Islamic Society of North America. He spoke to the participants about sources of Islamic knowledge. \u201cThe path to God is the path of knowledge. There\u2019s no basis to the claim that knowledge should be kept from masses,\u201d ImamMagid said. \u201cPeople with little knowledge make a lot of noise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Azizah al-Hibri, chair of KARAMAH\u2019s board of directors, led many sessions about Islamic law, women\u2019s rights and religion. Dr. al-Hibri noted that Islam recognizes differences between genders, while being at the same time gender equitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During a \u201cget-to-know each other\u201d segment, each woman wrote out her life story and shared it with her partners and the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samia El Solh is pictured here, carefully sketching out her story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the annual \u201cStronger Voices, Stronger Communities\u201d event held to highlight the empowered women of the Law and Leadership Summer Program, five women told their life stories to a rapt audience at local Washington, D.C. Busboys & Poets. Here, Rukia Mohamed is pictured sharing her story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During graduation, Maria Assif, the student commencement speaker shared some reflections and insightful stories with the class and attending guests.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with great happiness that we present our 12th class of the Law and Leadership Summer Program. Though we miss them, we are excited about their next steps. They are a talented group of leaders, and we are sure that they will affect substantial change in their respective communities. Mr. Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}