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Internship Opportunities
The Cordoba Initiative is seeking interns for its various programs and the New Media department. The Cordoba Initiative is a multi-faith, non-governmental organization that improves Muslim World-West relations through cutting-edge and sustainable programs in the following key areas of friction: leadership development, women’s empowerment, policy engagement, media relations, and Islamic law and governance.
Cordoba Initiative is currently searching for qualified interns (full- or part-time) capable of assisting in:
- Management of a strategic online media and social networking campaign
- Development of innovative marketing strategies for Cordoba Initiative's programs and the cause of Muslim-West relations as a whole
- Revising and implementing Cordoba Initiative's new comprehensive branding policy and applying it to all organizational and programmatic communications.
Interns may also be asked to work on a number of other Cordoba Initiative projects, and/or compose strategic communications pieces like op-eds for publication. Candidates must possess strong writing skills, dependability and independence. Advantages will be given to candidates who can demonstrate:
- Knowledge of key issues in Muslim-West relations and Middle East current events
- Passion for dialogue and cultural reconciliation
- Foreign language familiarity
- Ability to think outside the box and produce without the need for constant instruction
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, non-traditional environment
- Familiarity with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other common networking/media platforms
- Experience with website design or web-based technology a major plus!
Remuneration: a stipend will be provided. College-credit for qualifiying students available.
To apply, please send cover letter and resume (short writing sample optional) to:
Aylin Karamehmetoglu
Chief of Staff, Cordoba Initiative
ak@cordobainitiative.org
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Cordoba Initiative Newsletter - September 2010
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Speaks OutSince speaking with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on July 16 about the Muslim community center to be built in lower Manhattan, it has been painful to watch the national dialogue around this issue deteriorate into misinformation, hysteria and fear of Islam.
Imam Rauf has been overseas and not able to readily answer questions of the media, so the rhetoric from individuals like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and others who share their views has continued to distort the real issue at hand. Not all Muslims are terrorists, and the actions of terrorists are certainly not Islamic. This point must be realized if the conversation is ever to elevate beyond these harmful sound bites. It is my sincere hope that by releasing this audio recording and transcript of our recent conversation, those who honestly seek understanding about the Islamic center and the good leaders behind it will find it.
Listen to the July 16 interview here
Bloomberg Remarks at Iftar Dinner“But if we say that a mosque and community center should not be built near the perimeter of the World Trade Center site, we would compromise our commitment to fighting terror with freedom.
“We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting. We would feed the false impressions that some Americans have about Muslims. We would send a signal around the world that Muslim Americans may be equal in the eyes of the law, but separate in the eyes of their countrymen. And we would hand a valuable propaganda tool to terrorist recruiters, who spread the fallacy that America is at war with Islam.”
-Mayor Bloomberg
Read full article here
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