ABC Radio Australia:Connect Asia:Stories:Push for women's e. Musawah, meaning "equality" in Arabic, held its first international meeting in Kuala Lumpur in February, and brought together hundreds of Muslim scholars and activists. They argue that aspects of Muslim family law are neither compatible with the daily realities of women's lives, nor defensible under Islamic principles. Musawah ambassador Marina Mahatir is in Melbourne and spoke about the movement Wednesday night at a forum hosted by the National Centre for Excellence for Islamic Studies. Presenter: Joanna McCarthy Speaker: Marina Mahathir, Musawah ambassador JOANNA McCARTHY: Why was there seen to be a need to establish the Musawa movement? MARINA MAHATHIR: Well, basically it is to connect a lot of women's groups around the world that have been working for justice and equality in the Muslim family to share their experience and for solidarity.
JOANNA McCARTHY: Well, could you outline in what ways are some aspects of Muslim family law seen to discriminate against women? Transcripts. Return to Transcripts main page Interview With Pervez Musharraf Aired May 17, 2009 - 13:00 ET FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria. If Pakistan and Afghanistan are the biggest global stories of the moment, the man who can shed the most light on them is surely Pervez Musharraf, who was Pakistan's president for almost a decade until just last year.
But before we get started, I want to remind you about the history of this man. General Pervez Musharraf, then the chief of army, detained Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, suspended the constitution, disbanded parliament and went on state television to declare himself chief executive. Then came 9/11, and Musharraf went from being a dubious dictator to a crucial strategic ally of the United States. Now, some Americans felt he didn't go far enough. Tomorrow will mark nine months since that day. Welcome, sir. MUSHARRAF: No... Guatemala: Conversation With @Jeanfer, Twitterer Facing Up to 10. (Version en Español aquí) GUATEMALA CITY: Earlier this month, a Twitter user in Guatemala was arrested, jailed, and fined the equivalent of a year's salary for having posted a 96-character thought to Twitter. The tweet related to an ongoing political crisis in Guatemala sparked by allegations that president Álvaro Colom ordered the assassination of an attorney, and claims made by this attorney that government officials engaged in illegal, corrupt transactions through the country's largest bank.
Jean Ramses Anleu Fernandez, or @jeanfer as he's known on Twitter (at left), has since been released from jail. He is under house arrest while the Guatemalan government pursues charges against him. Jean is an unlikely public figure: a shy, soft-spoken I.T. guy who studies systems engineering and loves books. Guatemala's Supervisor of Banks, Édgar Barquín, wants Jean to face charges of up to 10 years in jail for "inciting financial panic" through the tweet in question. @JEANFER: With all my heart. Interview: Arsham Parsi of Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees ( Twitter’s Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search A. Last Thursday, I talked with Twitter cofounder Biz Stone on a variety of issues about Twitter but especially focused around search. In the interview, he discussed: how Twitter may redesign its home page to better reposition itself as a sharing and discovery service; how discovery might be enhanced by perhaps by allowing people to share “groups” of friends with each other; how the Twitter ecosystem of third-party software and services have helped people have “patience” with the service by adding features it couldn’t yet develop; the importance of SMS and more.
The Hotness Of Real Time Search — But What Is It? All the major players are reported to be talking to Twitter about everything from buying the service to getting its “firehose” datastream of tweets. What types of deals are being discussed? Stone said that it’s all still talk, that no one quite has figured out how they should work together. “I imagine more and more people will be interested in this,” he said. Where might search go?
Global Voices Online » Egypt: Interviewing a Baha’i Assailant. Egyptian blogger Ibn Rushd interviewed one of the Baha'i assailants. Here's a translation of the interview, in which the assailant admits to his role in the burning of six homes belonging to Baha'i families in the village of Shoraneya: “محمد” مواطن مصري بسيط .. يحمل نفس الملامح الهادئة المريحة التي يتميز بها أغلب المصريين، يعيش “محمد” متنقلاً ما بين قرية الشورانية التي ولد وتربي وعاش فيها وبين القاهرة التي يبحث فيها دائماً عن الرزق الذي يدعوه المصريين البسطاء “أكل العيش”! “قرية الشورانية”؟ هل سمعت هذا الاسم من قبل؟ لا تفكر كثيراً.. انها تلك القرية المصرية التي شهدت مؤخراً أحداث شغب نتج عنها احتراق 6 منازل للبهائيين عقب ظهور أحمد السيد أبو العلا وهو مواطن بهائى من الشورانية فى برنامج تليفزيونى أكد فيه أن الشورانية بها أكثر من ألف بهائى مما أثار غضب شباب القرية وقيامهم بحرق عدد من منازل البهائيين بالمنطقة.
تعرفت على “محمد” بالمصادفة في “فرن بلدي” في منطقة بولاق الدكرور، وهي منطقة شعبية في محافظة الجيزة .. وأكمل محمد كلامه بكل تأثر: انت متعرفش ازاي باقي البلاد في سوهاج بتبص لنا.. Violence against women most urgent problem, says activist Selma. TED Interview: Tribes Author Says People, Not Ads, Build Social. Seth Godin is an author and entrepreneur. His latest book, Tribes, argues that "lasting and substantive change can be best effected by a group of people connected to each other, to a leader and to an idea," according to Publisher’s Weekly. In an interview with Wired.com, Godin discussed the role of ego in a successful leader, finding your inner charisma and whether timing is everything, or even anything.
Wired: What exactly is a tribe and why is it so important? Seth Godin: Big world-changing ideas have had three cycles. The first cycle was that you could change the world by building a factory the way Henry Ford did. The second cycle had to do with advertising and TV and media and promotion. The third idea, the one that I think is really available to a large number of people now without a lot of resources, is this idea of finding and connecting like-minded people and leading them to a place they want to go. Wired: What makes one tribe gel over another? Wired: You mentioned Al Gore. Interviews Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg At Davos. We saved the best for last. Below is our interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week. Sandberg, who says this is her first video interview since joining Facebook in March 2008, talks with me for about nine minutes about the conference and the state of Facebook.
Sandberg has attended six World Economic Forum events at Davos over the years, including four as part of the Clinton administration. This year was a more somber event than normal, she says. We spoke briefly about the impact that the Facebook community had on the event through the polls created by Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Director of Marketing. During one panel, 120,000 Facebook users weighed in on the U.S. economic stimulus package. Sandberg on her first year at Facebook: “It’s been great. On the fact that 1 in 5 worldwide Internet users are on Facebook: “So we have 4 in 5 more to go. Full transcript: Sheryl Sandberg: Interesting. Sheryl Sandberg: 150 million.. Foreign Policy: How Humanitarian Intervention Failed the World. Foreign Policy: During your career, you have worked with humanitarian organizations in countries around the world.
Do you remember when you started to become skeptical of humanitarian intervention? What happened? Describe what this experience was like. Conor Foley: This is a complicated legal subject, and it is not possible to say: This is the view. I suppose the thesis of the book is that humanitarian interventions virtually never resolve humanitarian crises. FP: You have noted that you believe the Iraq war had a negative impact on the idea of humanitarian intervention? CF: What damaged [the idea of humanitarian intervention] were two things.
FP: What would be the ideal response in Darfur, if our hands werent so tied town? CF: I would ask for more support for the [African Union-United Nations] mission, which needs air support. FP: It seems like you're not opposed to intervention in principle, then. CF: Successful interventions tend to be those that are supported by the U.N. Saturday Interview - Google at 10 - Searching Its Own Soul - NYT.