I’m blessed to have had a productive and amazing first half of 2011. Hope you will check out 2 social media projects I was involved with recently.
The first one was with Aslan Media, Inc. Aslan Media is a platform “Bringing You The Middle East.” Aslan Media’s mission is to ” inform and engage, as well as stimulate discourse amongst the global youth population on issues coming out of the Middle East and “Western” politics as it relates to the region. ”
The site was founded by Reza Aslan, author, professor, and Middle East expert. Aslan Media, Inc. provides news and information about the Middle East to global English-speaking audiences. The company has multiple entertainment and media holdings, including BoomGen Studios and Appovation, LLC., with products and services such as mobile phone applications, independent movies, and a news wire service via Twitter.”
I had the honor of meeting him earlier this year at the 2011 Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals Conference.
Here is the clip: Exploring AltMuslimah
This is the description of the clip on the site: “AltMuslimah, the sister site of AltMuslim.com, launched in early 2009 as a platform designed to ‘explore’ both sides of the gender divide’ and has grown so rapidly that they’ve even garnered their very own space in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog. Aslan Media sat down with Founder and lawyer specializing in issues of religious freedom, Asma Uddin, as well as two of AltMuslimah’s contributors (and now Associate Editor) Shazia Kamal and Michael Vicente Perez, to talk about the site’s origins and future as well as the hot topics of interracial and gay marriage.”
The other project was led by socio-political blogger Amir Ahmad, who is based in Malaysia. He created and hosted the audio seminar, the The Future of Islam in New Media Conference, which was a conference consisting of 60 speakers speaking about Islam in New Media in 60 minutes. You can follow Amir Ahmad on twitter @SudaneseThinker.
Again, I had the honor of joining figures like Reza Aslan (Aslan Media), Fatemeh Fakhraie (Editor-in-Chief of Muslimah Media Watch), Javed Ali (CEO of Illume Magazine), Samya Ayish, (journalist based in Dubai), Wajahat Ali (writer at altmuslim.com and playwright, The Domestic Crusaders), Raquel Evita Saraswati (writer, activist), Zaki Hasan (blogger at zakiscorner.com and the Huffington Post), and many many more..
It was a truly unique idea. AltMuslimah.com is a proud sponsor of this event!
The broadcast took place on May 31, 2011.
Here is the link for The Future of Islam in the Age of New Media. You can view all of the participants of the conference on the page. I am working on getting the mp3 file up soon!
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