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Sidrah Jamal of Patna's Sultanganj area – a thickly Muslim-dominated pocket of the state capital – has earned honor and fame for not just her already well-off and well-educated family but for the community also – the community whose females are described as the most illiterate among the rest of the communities in the country.
Sidrah has got Gold Medal for topping in the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) at IGNOU – the New Delhi based world's largest Open University with study centres across the country and in different parts of the globe.
The youngest daughter of Mr. Shaukat Jamal and Mrs. Subuhi Jamal, Sidrah is pursuing Master in Computer Application (MCA) at IGNOU – the first year of the course is also considered as Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Applications (PGDCA). She has topped in the first year of MCA. She was awarded the medal at the 24th convocation ceremony of IGNOU held on 5th September. Sidrah did BCA in 2010 from Patna Women's College, Patna University.
Sidrah's father holds a high post in Railways while her two elder sisters are lecturer at the prestigious Patna Women's College.
Giving details about her family and herself, Sidrah told TwoCircles.net: "I am the youngest daughter of Mr. Shaukat Jamal and Mrs. Subuhi Jamal. My father is the Chief Inspector of Tickets in East Central Railways and my mother is homemaker. We are three sisters. My eldest sister Mrs. Soofia Fatima is the Head of Commerce Dept., Patna Women's College and my elder sister Mrs. Sadaf Fatima is an Economics Faculty, Commerce Dept., Patna Women's College."
Muslim women creating new artscape
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Using icons of Islam, a small group of Muslim women is creating a genre of art that seeks to address contemporary socio-political issues and concerns related to empowerment of women.
'They are innovating on elements from Islam to interpret what is happening to them and it goes beyond religion to become utterly human and secular,' Ashok Vajpeyi, the chairperson of the Lalit Kala Akademi, told IANS.
'Traditionally, not many women have existed in the field of art. It is an interesting emergence in the sense that there have been women writers in the 18th century. For a long time, it was thought that Islam did not allow visual representation.'
Two stalwarts in this world of Islamic art are Zarina Hashmi and the late Nasreen Mohamedi, who have re-interpreted Islamic calligraphy, geometry and spiritual linguistics on their canvas to engage with the 21st century world.
Karachi-born Nasreen Mohamedi, who died of Parkinson's disease in 1990 in India and was often described by critics and reviewers as progressive, addressed issues of urbanisation and the correlation between space, structures, time and dislocation in her grid-like works that were uncharacteristic of a Muslim woman artist.
'Both Zarina's and Nasreen's canvases are very secular. They should not be viewed as Islamic artists,' said Vajpeyi, who is also chairperson of Copal Art, an emerging art platform.
Copal Art had recently organised a dialogue which turned the spotlight on the significant role women artists are gradually playing in the contemporary world of Islamic art.
A mixed media installation by New York-based senior Indian artist Zarina Hashmi at an ongoing exhibition, 'Home Spun', in the Devi Art Foundation in the capital is a set of eight letters written by Zarina's sister Rani from Pakistan but could not be mailed.
The Urdu letters documented important socio-political events in the subcontinent during the 1940s and 1950s.
Hashmi superimposed the pages with Islamic calligraphy to create new metaphors that spoke of 'everyday life in Pakistan and India from an Islamic perspective at a time when the country was in a transformational state'.
As an artist, Zarina Hashmi who left India for New York in 1976 was a rebel, says art critic, curator and historian Roobina Karode.
'Initially, she was upset by the fact that American viewers expected her to offer Indian cliches - like vibrant colours and ornamentation. Her sparse, frugal and white canvases were seen as 'un-Indian'. When she reached New York for the first time in 1938, the feminist (women's suffrage) movement in the US was at its peak. Zarina was inspired by American feminists like Adrienne Rich, Nancy Spero and Amy Sillman,' Karode told IANS.
A new generation of women artists are carrying this legacy forward.
Shabnam Shah of Indore uses a 'black and white' colour palette to interpret Islamic icons while designer-artist Nida Mehmood breaks new ground with her brand of popular and kitsch art to address contemporary realities.
Karachi-based multimedia artist and photographer Bani Abidi, married to Delhi-based Indian graphic artist and novelist Sarnath Banerjee, comments on cultural diversities in the subcontinent from the perspective of a Muslim woman and practitioner of Islam.
'I definitely think there is a large body of women trying to create a new language of modernity from the Islamic background, finding a voice of their own with their own tools,' Amal Allana, eminent theatre personality and director of the Art Heritage Gallery, told IANS.
Agrees Salima Hashmi, the dean of the Visual Arts Department of the Beacon house National University in Lahore. 'It is an act of courage on the part of these Islamic girls to come out to tackle subject matters that were taboo earlier - like female sexuality, ownership of the body, violence against women and democracy'.
Several of her women students, like Faiza Butt, Masooma Syed, also married to an Indian, and Ruby Chisti, address radical issues without deviating from the matrix of the greater Islamic religious ethos.
Women try to beat odds in UAE poll
DUBAI: Fathiya al-Khamiri worries less about her chances of victory at the United Arab Emirates' advisory council election on Saturday than whether any woman will win a seat. It is the second time the UAE is holding an election to its advisory body, a type of parliament which is allowed to make recommendations to the rulers of the seven emirates but has no binding powers. Only 20 of its 40 seats are up for grabs, with the remainder being appointed by the rulers. Khamiri told Reuters at the Dubai Ladies Club it was all but inevitable that a large chunk of the female vote — which makes up 46 percent of a handpicked electorate of 129,000 people — would go to men in what is a patriarchal society. "We are waiting for surprises in September's elections," said Khamiri, a Dubai businesswoman who unlike most Emirati women does not wear a Hijab or head covering. Khamiri said she hoped a new generation was breaking away from a tradition when male family members encourage women to give their votes to male candidates. And she suggested the UAE could introduce a quota system, which would give women a guaranteed minimum number of seats in the assembly. Of the 468 candidates running for the Federal National Council (FNC), 85 are women, but so far, a woman's best chance to join the council has been by appointment. Reuters

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