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Summers will serve on the panel alongside Rajat Gupta, chairman of the board of the India School of Business; Amina J. Ibrahim, senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria; Kavita N. Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia...
...attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show: "To be veiled does not mean to get fat and not care about your looks...
...prayer leader is Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the organizers who invited her claim that she is the first woman to have presided over a mixed-gender prayer service in public since Islam's earliest days. The event was held in a cavernous hall on the grounds of New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine because no major mosque would play host to it. "There are still men who believe women are not allowed to be leaders. They're bullies," says organizer Asra Nomani, author of the new book Standing Alone...
...seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids in impromptu games of catch, accompanying their parents to polling booths, decked out in their newest clothes. "It's a big day, and I wanted my girls to experience it," said Amina Hussein, a Baghdad housewife, as she and her husband tried to subdue three giggling preteen daughters at a voting booth in the downtown Karrada district. "When they are older, God willing, they will vote in many elections. But this is the one they will never forget...
...recent loss could indicate that Harvard’s longtime foe is reeling and vulnerable to a Crimson upset—or stinging and eager to take out its frustration on Harvard. While Trinity lost several of its top players to graduation this season, including two-time Individuals champion Amina Helal, the Bantams undoubtedly remain one of the nation’s top two teams...