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Where are American Muslim Students

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:16:51 +0100

I am a strong advocate of education. I have always emphasized the importance of education, in fact the focus of American Muslims should be more towards community building and education rather than politics and advocacy. Majority of American Muslims are first and second generation immigrants, we should have a three phase approach to develop. The first generation should focus on community building and education, the second generation should focus on entrepreneurship and only third generation shRead More...

Muslims in Hollywood

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:27:27 +0100

Last year we hosted American Muslim Consumer Conference in New Jersey. In attendance were two Muslims from Hollywood; Kamran Pasha and Faran Tahir. I had the opportunity to meet both of them, what was surprising to know that although both of them have been working in Hollywood for many years, both are from Pakistani origin but they had never met each other before. Next day I picked both of them from the hotel to drop to the airport and during the ride to the airport i enjoyed their conversatiRead More...

Khan Academy - Education to Anyone Anywhere Free

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:13 +0100

In my quest to write about American Muslims who are either entrepreneurs, social workers, educationists or activists, I am always on the lookout for an inspiring story. The work done by Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy also falls in this category and Muslim Youth should learn from the work he has done. We all know the power of the internet; Social Media sites like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin are some of the sites which have ridden the popularity curve. These sites can be used Read More...

Muslim Inventions That Shaped The Modern World

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:44:18 +0100

Last week I came across a news item which reported the arrest of 11 students protesting during the speech of Israeli Ambassador at the University of California at Irvine. The article was published in a small newspaper Orange County Sentinel, what was interesting to note was 600 comments by readers. I enjoy reading comments posted by users, it gives you a perspective as to what kind of newsreader does the paper has. As always the comments were biased, unbiased, neutral, full of hatred, ignoranRead More...

Pakistani American buys American Football team

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:48:19 +0100

We love football in America, it is a great game and is synonymous with American culture, pride and a great sporting spirit. NFL (National Football League) which promotes the game is the most successful franchise and is a close knitted family. Getting in NFL and owning a football team in America is every business person dreams. This is the firt time in the NFL history that a owner of the football team will be a Pakistani American, an Illinois based business man, Shahid Khan, who will be buyingRead More...

Mentoring - Interactive Professional Development Relationship

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:05:56 +0100

Mentoring is commonly defined as an interactive professional development relationship in which both mentors and those they mentor gain career support. The reciprocal aspects of this relationship - mentoring is true partnership. Many people seem to think that mentoring is one sided, mentoring gives and mentee receives. A true mentoring is not one sided.

Having the support of mentor has long been regarded as a crucial determinant of career success. A mentor is traditionally someone withRead More...

Art of Networking

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:53:19 +0100

One of the best ways to keep you going in life is to constantly have new challenges. A sure way to do so is to have people open doors for you and provide you with opportunities. To ensure this flow of events, you must constantly expand your network of contacts and think of them as forgotten investments on which you might eventually be able to collect a return.

Remember that networking is a two way process and that honest and trustworthy people will always return the favor. This is Read More...

5 Must-Have Islamic Apps For The iPhone/iPod Touch

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:43:11 +0100

I love technology and specially how it has made our life easy. Technology has helped us communicate better, process faster, transact more, produce more and even when it comes to practicing our faith, tehnology helps us to do it better and more effectively. If you have access to internet, finding Qibla direction or finding a mosque is now only a click away.

As we are becoming more mobile and with cellphone becoming more powerful, these informations are readily available even when you aRead More...

Memeo Connect for Google docs sync from desktop

nazeer_syed@hotmail.com — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:15:05 +0100

Memeo Connect for Google Apps presents our customers with an attractive option to integrate or migrate all of their files into Google Docs.”

Lets you manage your Google Docs account from your desktop, giving you offline access to your Google Docs and making it easy to sync your files across multiple computers.

More about MemeoConnect

Best Buy Wishes Muslim Happy Eid al - Adha

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:28:22 +0100

A day after Thanksgiving is considered to be a Black Day, what it means that most Americans shop on that day for Christmas, it is a win win for both consumers as well as retailers, retailers lure consumers with low prices to their stores and consumers kickoff their Christmas or holiday season shopping. In business term that day is known as black day because retailers hope to go in black on their income statement because of the increased sales.

This year the Muslim holiday of Eid al-AdRead More...

Donate Generously to help earthquake victims of Haiti

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:38:48 +0100

We have seen many disasters struck a nation or a community and with every disasters the resolution of survivors become stronger and their faith in God becomes more. As Muslims our duty is to help those who are in need. This is the time to test our faith and donate generously to help the earthquake victims in Haiti. Since morning ever since the news hit the wire we have seen many nations, companies, relief organizations committing to help the earthquake victims. Help should be pouring in HaitiRead More...

World's Fastest Scientist - Egypt-American Nobel Prize WInner

ainain@gmail.com — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:01:45 +0100

World's Fastest Scientist
1/8/2010 - Science - Article Ref: SW1001-4033
Number of comments:
By: Andrew A. Sicree
Saudi Aramco World* -

Warm, late-afternoon sunlight streams through the window of a small room in the town of Desuq, in Egypt. The year is 1960, and a teenager studiously attacks a long list of math and chemistry problems. While he works, the voice of renowned Egyptian virtuoso Umm Kulthum filters from hRead More...

A Muslim Serial Entrepreneur par Excellence

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:51:56 +0100

Last night while surfing the web, came across a very inspiring article about a young Muslim Entrepreneur, Imran Hakim from UK whose iTeddy invention is an interactive teddy bear with a computer in its tummy. Hakim's iTeddy is an inventive educational toy designed to help kindergarten kids learn as they play. Children can download cartoons, stories and online tutorials for basic computer skills from a connected website. It equally has the ability to play MP3s or MP4s.

The article is veRead More...

1st Annual American Muslim Consumer Conference

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:41:41 +0100

On October 31, 2009 the first American Muslim Consumer Conference (AMCC) was hosted at Rutgers University in New Jersey. It was well attended by entrepreneurs, professionals, advertising and marketing executives, academia and community leaders.

The American Muslim Consumer Conference provides the only platfoRead More...

jolicloud new OS for Netbook

nazeer@webcaresolutions.com — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:45:41 +0100

Jolicloud is about to enter into Pre-Beta and we are dropping the invitations. We consider the product and its installation stable and simple enough for a broader release.

At Jolicloud, we believe people should be able to switch operating system on their netbooks. Like the adoption of Firefox made the web 2.0 possible, enabling users to switch OS will accelerate the growth and benefits of open cloud computing.

more about jolicloud.com

CEO JoliCloud is Tariq Krim and heRead More...

Young Muslim changing poor childrens life

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:32:24 +0100

I was delighted to come across Asher's presentation at TED India. I met Asher in summer of 2007 in New York City when he was working on the Naya Jeevan for Kids projects. Like all startup he was still putting his team together but I could see the passion in his eyes to help poor kids. I still remember him saying that in India and Pakistan, why is that a driver son becomes a driver and a maid daughter also becomes a maid. It is because we are not creating opportunities and environment for themRead More...

Accomplished Muslims

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:18:02 +0100

I am always on the lookout to find about Muslims who are noted for their accomplishments either in Business, Media, Education, Finance and Social responsibility.

Recently came to know about two Muslims who are in the management team of Admob, a company which offers mobile advertising and is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web. Mobile devices are a critical media platform and Admob buiRead More...

Islamic/Muslim contributions in DC

ainain@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:35:00 +0100

Salam,

On a recent trip to Washington DC I was pleasantly surprised to find many references to the contributions Muslims have made to civilization duly recognized in historic buildings.

1. Suleiman the Magnificient is represented in the House of Rep chamber

2. In the Library of Congress (largest library in the world), Islam is embodied and represented in the dome

3. Supreme Court Building. "The figure is a well intentioned attempt by the sculptor, Read More...

500 Most Influential Muslims of the World

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:02:57 +0100

It is a very interesting report published by Georgetown University of 500 most influential Muslims of the world. This comprehensive report shows the diverse nature of work Muslims are doing and how they are impacting the community.

The report can be downloded from here

Movers and shakers of the Muslim world. People who are influential as Muslims, that is, people whose influence is derived from their practice of Islam or from the fact that they are Muslim. We thinkRead More...

Movie about Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)

fmasood12@yahoo.com — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:24:21 +0100

Movie about Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)

Barrie Osborne, a Hollywood movie industry veteran of over 40 years whose credits include Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, has signed up as producer of the documentary epic.
"Barrie Osborne has agreed to produce the film and hopefully we should start to shoot in the first quarter of 2011," Raja Sharif, Alnoor's vice-president for international affairs, told AFP.
The film will respect Islamic traditions forbidding images of the prophet, Read More...