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As-Salaamu Alaikum Everybody,

Next Tuesday insha’Allah we’ll be holding our spring speaker event. The event will feature Jehane Noujaim, 2006 TED Prize winner and director of Control Room and Startup.com. Noujaim will address the power of film in bridging cross-cultural divides and promoting understanding.

Here’s some information about her:

Jehane Noujaim is an award-winning Arab-American documentary film director best known for her films Startup.com and Control Room, an astonishing documentary about Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Iraq war and the contrasting notions of truth expressed in the US media. She is also the recipient of the 2006 TED Prize, with which she created a world-uniting international celebration of film, Pangea Day.

Being raised between Egypt and the US and having studied at Harvard University, the exploration of culture is one of Jehane’s driving forces. Her reason for making Control Room: “It’s important for everyone, simply as individuals, to try to understand different people and different cultures, but it’s especially important for people in the United States because we affect so much of the world beyond our borders.” Noujaim’s earlier film, Startup.com, follows an arc that mirrors the curve of the dotcom bubble itself, capturing a small Internet company from its eager beginnings through the manic, moneyed times right down to the bitter end.

Noujaim has worked on various documentaries in both the Middle East and the U.S. as a director and cinematographer. Before culture even begins to shift, Jehane is there with her camera, trusting that the story to unfold is one that will change us.

InSha’Allah, we are looking forward to a great year full of thrilling speakers, fantastic GBM’s, and titillating social functions, and most of all, we look forward to serving you all as your new exec board!

First, some quick introductions (from left to right):
Your very own Public Relations Vice President, Saad Arain
Treasurer Rehan Azhar
External Relations Vice President Omar Jamil
Administrative Vice President Omar Uddin
Co-Presidents Omar Bin Khalid and Noreen Nasir
Executive Vice President Nazihah Adil
Islamic Studies Program Committee Chair Meena Sayeed
Secretary Aatifa Shareef

Feel free to contact any of us for whatever your needs may be!

We’re so excited, I’m only allowed to use exclamation points!

Take a study break and join us for bowling night this Thursday. Please RSVP by Wednesday at 5:00 pm so that we know how many people to arrange for. We will be meeting at Plex at 9:00 on Thursday night to go over to the bowling alley. It will cost ONLY $7 which includes shoe rental AND 2 games!
And as per McSA tradition, the best bowler bowls for free! RSVP to Mohi Qayyum at mohiuddinquayyum2011@u.northwestern.edu

NU-IMAN and McSA present the hottest show of the year: The commUNITY Show, displaying the wide variety of cultural talent on campus from singing to beatboxing to rapping, dancing and more!! Best part is–It’s FREE!

Featuring:

The ReMINDers – Hip-Hop Duo

http://www.myspace.com/theremindersfam

Alia Bilal – Spoken Word Artist

Hassan Ahmad & Menar Wahood – Beatboxing/Breakdancing Duo

Zeshan Bagewadi & Mo Ahmad

DJ Man-o-Wax

http://www.myspace.com/manowax

NU Student Performers including Brown Sugar, Graffiti Dancers, Northwestern Hindi Film Dance Team and more!

Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm!

The commUNITY Show is a performance arts showcase that emphasizes and promotes diversity of people, beliefs, and cultures. We firmly believe that art should not merely instruct but should inspire, not merely educate but express. NUnite will give Northwestern students the opportunity to come together to celebrate the diversity within and outside of our community, learn about each other, and open our eyes to the wide spectrum of talent we have on our campus.

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Interested in performing at The commUNITY Show? Contact Iman Ogundeko (Iman@u.northwestern.edu) with a description of your piece.

Contact numcsa@gmail.com for purchase information.

TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
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TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.

TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.
TICKETS CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED ONLINE. PLEASE BUY THEM AT THE DOOR.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9: Hamza Yusuf and Ingrid Mattson speak about the relationship between Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

The Northwestern University Muslim-cultural Students Association welcomes you to a panel debate between two of the world’s most premiere Islamic Scholars- Dr. Ingrid Mattson and Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. Please join us on October 9th, 2009 as together we address many issues plaguing our faith and the relations we have with others.Our event, Bridging the Gap: Interfaith Cooperation, will have each of these speakers elaborate on an aspect of how our religion, Islam, impacts our relationships with the other two major religions, Judaism and Christianity. These esteemed speakers will address issues including from what the relations should be between our religions, how and why they are the way they are today, and what we can do to steer them back to their proper course. We graciously invite you to join us in celebration of the culmination of our Islam Awareness Week, and sincerely hope we all benefit from this event moreso than we expect.

Location: Ryan Family Auditorium of Tech (2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL).
Parking: Across the street from the Technological Institute, and Norris Parking Garage. A map can be found here:

PARKING.

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