Cultural Boundaries & Cyberspaces: Innovative Tools and Strategies for Strengthening Women's Leadership in Muslim Societies

A Symposium with the KEvorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU

Event Details

  • Time

    09:15am

  • Date

    01 Jun, 2000

  • Location

    • Ben Snow Room, New York University
    • 70 Washington Square South New York, NY

  • Contact

    WLP

The Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) is organizing a symposium entitled, “Cultural Boundaries & Cyber Spaces: Innovative Tools and Strategies for Strengthening Women’s Leadership in Muslim Societies,” on June 1, 2000, in collaboration with the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. This is a foundational event of Women’s Learning Partnership organization.

The purpose is to provide a highly interactive forum for women to share knowledge and discuss ways of building leadership capability through culture sensitive strategies using innovative tools and modern technology. Speakers will include influential women leaders in politics, civil society, media and information and communications technologies (ICTs), from Muslim societies and elsewhere.

2000 Cultural Boundaries & Cyber Spaces Flyer

9:15    Registration

9:45    Welcome  

           MAHNAZ AFKHAMI
           President, Women’s Learning Partnership

10:00    Women’s Leadership in the Age of Globalization    

  • Facilitator: SHAZIA RAFI
    • Secretary General, Parliamentarians for Global Action
  • NOELEEN HEYZER
    • Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 
  • ARUNA RAO
    • Independent scholar and former President, Association for Women In Development
  • JANICE BRODMAN
    • Director, Center for Innovative Technologies Education Development Center

         Question & Answer Session

11:30    Break

11:40    New Ways of Learning & Leading: Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

  • Facilitator: CHARLOTTE BUNCH
    • Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Professor, Rutgers University
  •  BUSHRA JABRE
    •  Coordinator, Arab Women Speak Out
  • GILLIAN CALDWELL
    • Director, Witness
  • NAJAT ROCHDI
    •  President, Morocco Internet Society
  •  JACKI LYDEN
    • Senior Correspondent, “Weekend All Things Considered” on National Public Radio
  •  DAVAR ARDALAN
    • Radio Producer,“Weekend All Things Considered” on National Public Radio

          Question & Answer Session

1:10    Lunch: Conversations with presenters

2:30    Women Architects of Civil Society in the 21st Century: Personal Reflections on Leading Priorities

  • Facilitator: THORAYA OBAID
    • Director, Division for Arab States and Europe, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • ZAHIRA KAMAL
    • General Director, Directorate for Gender Planning and Development,
      Palestinian Ministry of Planning
  • ASMA KHADER
    • Coordinator, Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former President, Jordanian Women’s Union
  • AMINA LEMRINI
    • President, Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc
  • AYO OBE
    • President, Civil Liberties Organization, Nigeria

         Question & Answer Session

4:45 Concluding Remarks

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