Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) was established
in 2000 with the support of leading business personalities.
BEI is headed by President and CEO Mr. Farooq Sobhan, former
Foreign Minister. BEI is mandated “to promote, articulate
and influence policy issues and measures of crucial importance
to the development of a market oriented economic regime enabling
the unfettered and smooth growth of trade, commerce and industry.”
Mr. Sobhan has offered to use BEI’s resources to help
NFP adapt and introduce its curriculum here through the Scolastica
School and other partners. (www.bei-bd.org) |
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Canada
Cyberswirl Solutions is a Toronto for-profit information
technology firm specializing in communications tools for nonprofits.
Its leaders Shaheen Mohammed and Amin Tejpar and their team
bring their IT skills together with graduate level training
in Muslim studies, science, education and other disciplines
learned at Columbia University in New York. Cyberswirl is available
to develop NFP’s course content, as well as online teaching
and learning platforms.(www.cyberswirl.com) |
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Egypt
(proposed)
The Egypt International Economic Forum has indicated
interest in efforts to build understanding between Egyptians,
Americans and Europeans, and to present the deeper historical
reality of Muslim civilizations to global audiences. EIEF is
allied with the World Economic Forum in Davos (www.eieforum.org).
Through EIEF, we have begun partnership conversations with several
nonprofits and organizations about delivering NFP's various
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France
In July 2005, NFP was invited by the French Ligue de
l’enseignement to proposed educational programs
to convey a broader understanding of the achievements of Muslim
civilization. The Ligue was founded in 1866, and brings educational
and cultural programs to 2 million French citizens. (www.laligue.org) |
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India
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) was born during the Indian
movement to independence, in response to a call by Mohandas
Gandhi in 1920. The University now has over 11,000 students,
more than 600 teachers and about 1000 non-teaching staff. The
University has many centres of learning, from nursery schools
to faculties and research centres. JMI is in the process of
setting up five new research centers: a Jawaharlal Nehru Centre,
a Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations,
a Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, a Centre for West
Asian Studies, and a Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies.
As perhaps the leading modernist Muslim educational institution
in India, JMI has multiple educational links and networks with
India’s more than 80 million Muslims. Vice Chancellor
Dr. Mushirul Hasan has voiced a personal interest in our project.
(www.jmi.nic.in) |
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Indonesia
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta
Prof. Dr. Azyumardi Azra, Rector of the State Islamic University
(UIN) in Jakarta, has offered to collaborate with NFP, through
the University and its national and international network of
partners, on all aspects of our program, including curricula,
books and multimedia projects. Prof. Azyumardi speaks and writes
frequently on Islam, tolerance and coexistence. He also serves
on the international board of The International Centre for Islam
and Pluralism (ICIP), founded in 2003.The principal goal of
ICIP is to build a network of Islamic NGOs and progressive-moderate
Muslim activists and intellectuals (www.azyumardiazra.com, www.uinjkt.info/www-ina/default.asp,
www.icipglobal.org/www.ui) |
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Jordan
Injaz is the largest youth-oriented organization in
Jordan and has received extensive support from Queen Rania al
Abdullah. Based in Amman, its activities focus on business oriented
courses for youth, and it reaches about 26,000 youth nationwide.
Injaz has worked extensively with foreign donors including the
U.S. Department of State and U.S. A.I.D., and has committed
to helping NFP adapt and introduce its curriculum to Jordanian
and other Arab students. (www.injaz.org) |
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Pakistan
Women and Development Association (WADA) and
Developments in Literacy (DIL). WADA was founded
and is now headed by leading poet and feminist Fahmida Riaz.
Based in Karachi, WADA has published books on gender issues,
held workshops on tolerance, contributed to curricula and textbooks,
and used literature and poetry as ways to deal with deeper cultural
issues. WADA has also held workshops and written books on issues
like sexual abuse of women and Muslim women writers. DIL was
founded by concerned Pakistani-Americans to combat rising illiteracy
in Pakistan, and delivers free education to 10,000 students
at a network of 200 schools throughout the country. DIL has
now completed its expansion program, and is focusing on teacher
training and curriculum improvement. (www.4dil.org) |
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United
States
The University of New Mexico
with its main campus in Albuquerque is New Mexico’s leading
public liberal arts university with more than 30, 000 students
and an annual budget of US$1.3 billion. UNM offers all the standard
academic departments, as well as a nationally-ranked School
of Medicine and School of Law, and adds special strength in
Education, Anthropology and Latin American Studies. UNM has
offered to cooperate with NFP on student exchanges, cultural
studies, curriculum development and teacher training. (www.unm.edu)
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