My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
Our democratic culture does not prioritise protecting an individual's right to live life her way, especially if that is not our way or the way of the community.
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
