OPERATION EDUCATION: INTO THE REAL TERRORIST MIND
Peace be upon you,
Update: information about format, cv, etc.
Perhaps, some may have missed our original call for papers in the the
pre-holiday crunch, so we have moved up our deadline by a few weeks.
Below is also the original call for papers along with information about
our organization.
Final Call for Papers
9/11 Interdisciplinary Anthology
Deadline for FULL papers: February 5, 2002
Paper length: 300 to 5100 words
Acceptable formats: Word, RTF, TXT, or text in body of email
Please submit paragraph length curriculum vitae or pertinent
biographical information with your entry.
If you have already sent your article, please send a brief CV as well.
If your work has been published elsewhere, please provide us with
contact information for the publisher or editor, so we can obtain
written permission to reprint the work.
Thank you ever so much.
Nadia Ahmad
Students for International Peace and Justice, Inc.
PO Box 150695
Altamonte Springs, FL 32715
Email nadia@sipj911.com
Website www.sipj911.com
ORIGINAL MESSAGE
Please feel free to submit your work for consideration for publication
to nadia@sipj911.com by Feb. 5, 2002. Remember paper length is 300 to
5100 words. You may submit it as an RTF, TXT, or Word document. Once
again, we appreciate your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact
us with any inquiries.
Regards,
Nadia Ahmad
www.sipj911.com
PS Related disciplines include, but are not limited to medicine, law,
economics, finance, political science, international relations,
computer science, linguistics, journalism, etc. Please let me know
about your selected paper topic at your earliest convenience.
Topic examples
The Bush Presidency as Defined by 9-11
The Impact of Islam on the West
The Emergence of the Islamic Jihad
How Wall Street Reacted to Sept. 11th
Philanthrophy: The Relief Effort at Home and Abroad
The Growth of the Peace Movement
Anthrax: Biological Warfare on the Home Front
State Terrorism in the Name of National Security
The FBI and Justice Department's Witch Hunt for "Muslim Terrorists"
Bin Laden: Is He the Real Menance and Mastermind Behind It All?
Racial-Profiling and War Tribunals: Do We Still have Rights?
How Muslims Reacted to 9-11
The Perception of Islam and Muslims in the West
Will We Ever Be Free of Terrorism?
America Foreign Policy as it Shapes Global Politics
War Against Terrorism as Crusade and Jihad
How the Dollar Reacted to 9-11
Al-Qaeda: The Tentacles of a Terrorist Network
Refugees in Afghanistan
Islam as it Accords Rights and Responsibilities to the Sexes
Racism and Sexism in the Name of Justice
Torture as a Questioning Tactic
The Failure of the International Intelligence Forces in Weeding out
Terrorism
How Should We Respond and Protect Ourselves from Terrorism?
Islamic Terrorism: The Oxymoran of the Millenium
Please do not hesitate to suggest anything because we are open to free
thought.
PUBLISHING OFFER
I am writing to offer you a chance to publish in our interdisciplinary
anthology in response to 9/11. Into the Real Terrorist Mind is an
attempt to grapple with some of the difficult issues that face us. I
would love to see you submit an article to us. Present contributers
include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Molefi Kete Asante, Ishmael Reed,
Hatem Bazian, Michael Parenti, Marjorie Cohn, John Esposito, Phil
Gasper, Charley Reese, John Catalinotto, and more.
It can be anything from 300 to 5100 words in the form of an scholarly
article, text of a
delivered speech, and even something already published because our is
an edited anthology. Deadline for submission is February 5, 2002.
Please also encourage students and faculty to submit as well. We would
also appreciate it if you could forward us the names and emails of
others to submit.
So far, we have received over 120 submissions from professors and
students from six continents. The effort is a part of a global
education campaign sponsored by Students for International Peace and
Justice, Inc., which is a youth movement formed in response to 9/11.
The work looks quite promising already. I have received submissions
from literally all over the world: China, Australia, Palestine, Jordan,
India, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Russia, and
elsewhere. A similar anthology, edited by two Berkeley grad students,
received international interest as well. I feel this work also has
such potential if done properly.
At this point, I would like to bring you up to speed with the efforts
of Students for International Peace and Justice. The aim of the student
coalition is to educate ourselves and our communities that we can,
indeed, have peace on Earth. As all youth-driven movements, this
initiative is fueled by ground work on campuses in the form of teach-
ins and rallies. By shaking the intellectual currents of ivory towers
is where any lasting and credible impact is possible and happened in
the past, like the Vietnam War era. Our representatives have made
speeches in colleges, schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples,
libraries, and other places.
Moreover, we have organized two large peace symposiums with limited
time, funds, and means. The first conference was a statewide meeting
for youth leaders and community activists on September 22, 2001, at the
Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Nationally syndicated
columnist, Charley Reese; trial lawyer and professor, Daniel Vaughen;
FBI agent, Ron Rothwell; US Justice Department spokesman, Tom Battles;
local law enforcement, and other distinguished speakers addressed
topics like hate crimes, foreign policy, and civil rights. Almost 200
people attended that event, which set the stage for our next program,
Operation Education: Security through Peace, on October 27th in the TD
Waterhouse Centre, arena for NBA's Orlando Magic. Bob Bowman, 2000
American Presidential candidate; Reverend Markel Hutchins of the
National Youth Connection; Sara Flounders, co-director of the
International Action Center, which was founded by former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clark; Mark NeJame, a prominent criminal defense
attorney; Imam Tariq Rasheed of the Islamic Center of Orlando; UC
Berkeley's Hatem Bazian; Harvard University's Faiz Shakir; Altaf
Hussain, National President of Muslim Students' Association, and other
notables spoke. The second event coincided with the International Day
of Action: 75 US cities and over 20 foreign countries participated.
Sara Flounders said of our efforts, "What you were able to accomplish
on October 27 in Orlando still stands out as one of the most important
actions nationally. As the war and the bombing continues, we continue
to plan protests and rallies. The movement for peace is growing."
Our volunteers are also busy making presentations about our civil
rights and peaceful alternatives to war. Future lectures include
Georgia Southern University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Santa
Clara University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, Harvard
University, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of
Michigan, University of Chicago, Cambridge University, Oxford
University, and more.
May all of us become vehicles to establish an enduring peace on Earth.
We appreciate your consideration in the matter.
Truly yours,
Nadia Batool Ahmad, President and Founder
Students for International Peace and Justice, Inc.
Website www.sipj911.com
Email nadia@sipj911.com
Peace is not just the season, but a state of mind...
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