ASMA Update: April 2012

Awards

Daisy Khan is the first recipient of the Charles Ansbacher Award of Hunt Alternatives Fund

As part of the Prime Movers fellowship program of Hunt Alternatives Fund, Daisy Khan was named the first recipient of the Charles Ansbacher Award. This honor recognizes a Prime Mover who embodies characteristics Charles Ansbacher particularly valued: visionary thinking, civic commitment, and most important, peer mentorship. Read more here.

Media

@DaisyKhan: One of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012

TIME has named @DaisyKhan one of the best Twitter feeds of 2012!

7 Women You Must Follow for LOLs, OOOHs and AHHs

@DaisyKhan was also included in Glamour‘s #FollowFriday feature!

Daisy Khan took part in a radio interview with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, speaking on Muslims in America and interfaith dialogue.

Listen to the conversation here.

WISE

Ten Muslim Women Every Person Should Know

In an article for the Huffington Post, WISE Program Manager Fazeela Siddiqui names the ten Muslim women everyone should know, including Daisy Khan and WISE woman Laleh Bakhtiar. Read more here.

Connect with WISE: On Facebook | On Twitter

Recent Events

Love InshAllah. The Sacred Love Lives of American Muslims – ASMA co-sponsors book reading at Columbia School of Journalism

Feb. 15, 2012. There was standing room only, as Sarah Khan probed co-editors Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi; contributing authors related personal accounts of their love lives; and the audience spoke up loud and clear on arranged marriages, dating, and the challenges they face in finding a spouse. Read more here.

Interfaith

Daisy Khan took part in LIM College’s GlobalSpeak series, speaking about Muslim women as agents for social change. Read more here.

World Conference of Women’s Shelters

Daisy Khan took part in the Second World Conference of Women’s Shelters in a panel titled Building Power Through Networks. Read more here.

Daisy Khan took part in a roundtable discussion at Saint Leo University in Tampa, Florida titled Religion and the Challenge of America: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Read more here.

Daisy Khan Participates in Vienna Conference on Countering Violent Extremism

Daisy Khan took part in an expert roundtable on the role and empowerment of women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism.

Read more here.

Daisy Khan participated in Enter the Conversation: Water and Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Read Daisy’s address here.

Daisy Khan took part in an interfaith candlelight vigil in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Riverside Church.

Collaboration

ASMA & Spence-Chapin Launch Pilot Program in NY and NJ

The adoption agency will place children from Morocco with U.S. families. Daisy Khan and Sabeeha Rehman spoke to the staff at Spence-Chapin on basic beliefs of Islam and on understanding the considerations related to adoption.

Outreach

Pakistani Journalists Visit ASMA

Sponsored by the State Department, and as part of the Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Program, a highly engaging group of journalists dialogued at length on women’s issues and ASMA’s role in women’s empowerment.

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