…Women’s Affairs Directorate from Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs, and Holy Places. KARAMAH regularly meets with delegations of International women and Muslim leaders, and was excited to exchange ideas and…
Saturday, Dec. 10, KARAMAH hosted an art exhibit and lecture by architect Maryam Eskandari. Ms. Eskandari is a graduate of the Harvard-MIT Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Her work…
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…month at most, she determined that we would be back that afternoon to eat with the family. Considering that food is cheap in Penang (prior to meeting the family, Nur…
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…Mississipi. The Sovereignty Commission used some of the same practices that are controversial today: infiltration of peaceful nonviolent civic organizations, collection of dossiers (often with false information), and tapping phones,…
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…a brighter future. Though the exact numbers remain murky, at least 12,000 civilian women and children have been killed since the conflict began nearly three years ago. This number may…
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…over an American courtroom; Master in Chancery at Circuit Court for Baltimore City Our moderator will be Arshi Siddiqui, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. GET TICKETS HERE…
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…to learn about and from each other. And most urgently, we need to resist the cheap demagoguery that seeks to generate and mine religious tension for short-term political advantage.” Download…
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…in eminent danger, rape or other sexual offences, stalking and false imprisonment.” KARAMAH receives phone calls from women around the world seeking help for DV situations. We provide legal help…
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…tooth,” (retributive justice). But it places at the highest level of this hierarchy the concept of forgiveness (restorative justice) because of its healing effect on society. Yet not every person…
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…risks discriminating against the world’s roughly 800 million Muslim women who may observe a headscarf—further alienating them from basketball. Likewise, it risks discriminating against women from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sabien,…
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