Calling all Women!! - more female speakers needed!

Calling all Muslim Women!!

The purpose of MDI is to facilitate, support and encourage dialogue and debate between members of different communities for the purpose of combating prejudice, de-mystifying false stereotypes and allowing an open forum for people to express their opinions and convince others of their ideas by civilised debate rather than using other means which create disharmony between communities. Further to this goal, we aim to include ALL members of each community so that they have their voices and opinions heard.

In our work to initiate dialogue and debate, we have had too few Muslim women step up and support our work as speakers for the Muslim community. Currently, we have one female member-speaker, Dr Tabassum Hussein (a PhD qualified professional and the most academically qualified member of MDI) based in Canada, and two female members based in the UK.

We at the MDI feel that this lack of representation of females is failing to realise the full intellectual wealth and resources of the Muslim community and hindering our work to engage with wider society, explain Islam and encourage better mutual dialogue communities.

We therefore make an official call on all Muslim women, who are interested in partaking in our work, to contact our Female Empowerment Officer, Nazli Ali, to discuss your experience and what help or support you may need to become a female public speaker.

We will also soon be holding training programmes in public speaking, academic research and subject primers for people just starting out in the world of public speaking, debating and dialogue. So watch this space!