Word: rizvi
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...Lahore-based analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi believes that radicalization could not occur during a one-month visit with family. "These people aren't coming to Pakistan and getting radicalized, they were radicalized before they came. You don't just show up at a madrassah, spend a few weeks there and become a jihadi. It doesn't work that way," he says. "Here in Pakistan their commitment to radicalism will be reinforced, but the germs are already in place." It is back in the U.K. that such visitors are provided with contacts and introductions to terrorist cells or extremist groups...
...life of Muhammad and his family, and the role of women in Islam. She said the seminars will also address contemporary issues such as the Muslim stance on stem cell research. Nguyen estimated that at least 30 people would attend the seminar. According to HIS Treasurer Saheer A. Rizvi ’08, although the class will be similar to a course, it will be less stressful. “There are no discussion sections, no tests; no time commitment apart from attending the one-hour session; it’s designed to be a relaxed way for students...
...answer to close “the social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries,” according to Ashoka’s website. Drayton was introduced at the Forum by Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and a lecturer at the Kennedy School. “When you think about anyone who brought about a great change in the 20th century, one of them has to be Billy Drayton,” Rizvi said...
...Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute, did not return repeated requests for comment this week. But in a statement last week, Rizvi called the winning initiatives—culled from an initial applicant pool of over 1,000—“ground-breaking efforts” that “[take] a creative approach to a significant problem” in bureaucracy and administration...
These scholars and debates, he said, will foster dialogue among the institute, outside researchers and government innovators, Rizvi said...