Visionary Speakers:
Hiba bought Arabic Opera into existence. Her compositions combine Oriental-Arabic music components with international composition techniques, and bridging classical with contemporary music. Since her first concert at the age of six, Hiba has thrilled audiences throughout the world. She has been awarded many decorations including The Golden Sultan Qabous Order for Culture, Science and Art. She has sang with orchestras from many countries, including the London Symphony orchestra. Hiba is also a committee member for UNESCO.
Imam Dr Taj Hargey was raised in South Africa during the Apartheid era and became a pasionate campaigner against discrimination in all forms. Today this scholar of Islamic history and theology is the Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for British Islam and the Chair of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, where he invited Professor Amina Wadud to be the first woman Imam to lead mixed-gender Friday prayers in the UK. He will discuss why this pioneering event was worth the effort and why feminism is a God-given imperative. Dr Hargey and his colleague Farzana Khan will also be running a timely workshop on Islam and women’s emancipation.
Carole is the former producer of BBC Radio 4’s flagship discussion programme ‘Any Questions?’. She is widely recognised as the Queen of Networking and has developed a unique business based on her wide circle of friends and business contacts - her database includes details of over 30,000 people. Carole is the author of two books on effective networking. She is now the Managing Director of the opinion research company YouGovStone. Carole will be talking to Joanne Sawicki about the importance of networking - both personally and professionally.
(Pending Parliamentary obligations.)
Sadiq Khan has been an MP since 2005 and in 2008 he became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Prior to becoming the MP for Tooting, London, Sadiq was a human rights solicitor, having been a founder partner of one of the country’s leading human rights firms. Sadiq has been an active player in equalities legislation and is a champion of climate change.
Sandra is a leading global player in the NGO movement. Working in development programmes since the 70s, Sandra established a national women’s NGO in Bangladesh and then helped set up El Taller, a worldwide NGO movement based in Spain and Tunisia. In 1995, Sandra moved to the UK where she worked in senior capacities with Interact Worldwide, Reproductive Health Alliance and ICOMP. In 2006 she established BRAC UK and is still on the boards of several international development organisations.
Please note that we are still receiving some fabulous films and will be refining our Programme as the event approaches.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE CONTINUALLY REFINING OUR PROGRAMME AND THE DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Maha is Director of the Help Center, the first private charity for children with mental disabilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She serves on the Board of many organizations, including Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts that serves persons with disabilities around the world and the Ahmed Juffali Foundation, established by her family as a philanthropic institution to support disadvantaged causes around the world. Maha holds an MA in Health Management, is a qualified teacher and certified Child-Life Therapist. She has received many awards in recognition for her contribution to the field of Special Education in the region and internationally, including a medal from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, presented in 2002 for the first time to a woman in acknowledgement of her work.
Perveen is the UK PR Manager for Intel Corporation, responsible for developing PR strategy including working with global colleagues to manage the company’s corporate reputation. Perveen began her career as a journalist working for a local newspaper in Manchester. She moved from journalism into PR in 1997 when she joined the global technology agency Brodeur Worldwide, then the Banner Corporation and then worked as International Communications Manager for 3Com before taking up the position as UK and Ireland PR Manager for networking giant Cisco Systems.
Dame Mary is Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, a new initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation. The programme's aim is to identify, develop and connect aspiring leaders in the third sector. She was Chief Executive of the NSPCC for eight years. Before this, her career was in education and was headteacher of two large comprehensive schools. She’s a non-executive director of HSBC Bank and a national member of the Learning and Skills Council.
Social scientist, author and activist, started Women without Borders (www.women-without-boders.org. Her research focuses on women in international politics. Her numerous publications have earned critical acclaim. Edit designed a number of ground breaking projects focusing on building up female self-confidence as the key tool for establishing a female powerbase in countries of transition, from tradition to modernity, such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda and India. The latest initiative Edit launched is SAVE – Sisters Against Violent Extremism
Gini is an Emmy-winning, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and producer. She produced the Academy Award nominated short, Asylum, and the Emmy nominated, A Decade Under The Influence. Directing for the PBS Series Wide Angle, Reticker took home an Emmy and the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Ladies First, which focused on the role of women in rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda. In 2006, Reticker directed The Class of 2006, for Wide Angle, spotlighting the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat. Her first film, The Heart of the Matter received the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award.
Ameenah has a BA in Film & Drama and Masters in Theatre Directing. She began her career in the BBC. Her work in production and assistant directing includes several critically acclaimed British independents: 'Brothers of the Head' (winner Michael Powell Award, Edinburgh) Saul Dibb's 'Bullet Boy' and 'Yasmin' by OSCAR winner Simon Beaufoy. In 2008 she shot in the Himalayas to produce Rahul Gandotra’s ‘The Runaway’. She recently assistant produced the award-winning feature 'Brick Lane', worked under OSCAR nominated producer Alison Owen (The Other Boleyn Girl), and helped producers to deliver the children's fantasy 'The Secret of Moonacre' for Warner Bros.
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