By Founder and editor-in-chief Amani Al-Khatahtbeh spoke with President Bill Clinton at UC Berkeley on Friday on the importance of Muslim Girl‘s work to empower marginalized narratives.
The “Courage to Create” opening plenary of Clinton Global Initiative University broke UC Berkeley’s record for event attendance with over 6,500 selected students present from all over the world. Moderated by President Clinton, the panel also included Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy; Wael Ghonim, organizer of the Jan. 25 Egyptian revolution; Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest, and Cady Coleman, woman astronaut with NASA.
CGIU hosts an annual meeting on a different campus every year to discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global challenges.
Mashallah I am so proud to see Amani up there! You go girl!
This brought me so much satisfaction. The internet is filled with Muslim haters. To see someone talking back in such a positive way warmed my heart. I think the quotation which should be our punch line printed on every header is “People that aren’t Muslim, People that aren’t women, think they know everything about us”. And by our I mean every Muslim woman on the internet. Hats off to you Amani.
Finally got around to watching this (got another reminder while reading your book hehe) – and wallahi, only feel so so much more proud and in awe of you sista – not that I was surprised but you handled yourself so well (to say the least). No way I could do that, not at that age and not now I don’t think (I’m 35). But given the circumstances, I feel more driven to speak up, in part, to young ones like yourself, as well as my contemporaries.