奖学金

呼应亦阳诸葛20年

Echo received a Mizna 太阳城官网 奖学金 for Arabic studies and service work in Morocco. 在这四周的经历之后, she was awarded an Aggad奖学金 for an eight-week internship in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, 卡塔尔.

“Bridging Two Worlds: Understanding Modern Islam through a Chinese Lens”

在前往摩洛哥之前, Echo became interested in the political climate regarding the treatment of Muslim communities, 尤其是在中国. 她去了拉巴特, Morocco as a Mizna fellow to study Arabic and to continue the series of articles she had begun in Palestine, writing to her Chinese readers about life in Morocco during Ramadan, 后来谈到在卡塔尔工作.

她在拉巴特的时候, Echo lived with a local family and volunteered at a local school founded by two Sudanese women who aid the children of Sub-Saharan African refugees to overcome the linguistic barriers and adjust to Moroccan society. 回声解释说, “these children were learning Arabic simultaneously as I was, and my experience exposed me to the deep-rooted Sub-Saharan refugee issues in Morocco.“她在那儿的时候, she befriended a 26-year-old Kenyan who became an inspiration for many of the articles she wrote about her experience. “I wrote about her experience as a religious minority as only 9% of Kenyan population are Muslims, about the role of Islam to her growing up in absolute destitution, about the different ways to practice the religion in Africa and Arabia.”

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“In this three-month process of writing about North Africa and the Gulf to a Chinese audience, I had become a personal testifier of how ignorance breeds fear and curiosity leads to understanding. Most of the Islamaphobia directed towards me did not come from religious hatred, 而是, it was a result of a complete lack of religious education in China in the past six decades [1], fueled by ethnic differences between the secular Han majority and the minority Muslim populations- the Uyghur, 哈萨克族, 和回族. 缺少一个对话, 为此, I am grateful for the Mizna奖学金 for giving me an opportunity to be the person to initiate this dialogue, to translate the two otherwise incommunicable worlds to each other.”

特雷弗·琼斯20岁

特雷弗·琼斯是安曼的米兹纳太阳城官网员, Jordan for a six-week research project working with refugees. He hadn’t anticipated building such close relationships with a group of refugees not associated with the Middle East refugee crisis: the Sudanese. Trevor worked closely for the Jesuit Refugee Service and lived with the Jesuit community, which all involved working with the Sudanese, which therefore inspired his case for research.

的 Sudanese in the Hashemite Kingdom: A Story of Socio-Economic Discrimination

Trevor’s time in Jordan enriched him in learning about a minority group crisis that is continually overlooked by international forces. 尽管他在约旦, he was able to learn about the rich and complicated Sudanese history and how it is intertwined with Jordan’s history and the refugee crisis taking part in the Middle East and Africa. Trevor states the urgent need for the United Nations and others to become aware of the treatment of the Sudanese in Jordan, 但不幸的是, “the United Nations does not recognize the situation in Darfur as a declared refugee crisis.“因为米兹纳奖学金, Trevor is able to bring his new knowledge back to 太阳城网赌平台 campus to share with fellow students, 教授, and faculty to make sure that others can learn about a issue that is often overshadowed by other international refugee crises.

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