{"id":62410,"date":"2015-03-12T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=62410"},"modified":"2015-03-12T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T05:37:45","slug":"hundreds-within-campus-celebrated-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=62410","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds within campus celebrated International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Maryam Spahic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 11 March 2015: Hundreds of people, female as well as male, within the IIUM community gathered to celebrate women empowerment in conjunction with the International Womens Day at Main Auditorium last night.<\/p>\n<p>The successful event was organised by Assalam Club in collaboration with IIUM Model United Nations Club, Political Science Students Association (POSSA) and Students Representative Council (SRC).<\/p>\n<p>According to Assistant Programme Manager, Sukainah Abdulqader, Assalam Club initiated the celebration of International Womens Day last year and has decided to make it a tradition in this university.<\/p>\n<p>Nani Abdul Rahman, a graduate of IIUM and Harvard, Ameera Natasha Moore, current IIUM student (Cambridge Debate Best Speaker) and Sarah Chinoy, former IIUM debater, shared their thoughts and feelings on various women-related topics including women empowerment, gender equality, religion and marriage.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-recorded video by the United Nations Youth Advocate USA, Rana Abdelhamid was played specially for last nights audience. Rana spoke about her foundation entitled Womens Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE) and the struggles of Muslim women living in the west.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was entertained by intriguing yet insightful play depicting the brave life of Khawlah bin Azwar as well as spoken words by Yasmin and Mohammed Sano.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maryam Spahic GOMBAK, 11 March 2015: Hundreds of people, female as well as male, within the IIUM community gathered to celebrate women empowerment in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62521,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62410\/revisions\/62521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}