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5th Youth Assembly at the United Nations

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Calling on Youth (18-26 years old) who seek future involvement with the United Nations, civil society, and ways to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

An invitation from Patrick Sciarratta …. one of FEZANA’s networking contacts from our participation at UN headquarters at the DPI/NGO  annual meeting in September 2003….

All expenses for travel, lodging and arrangements for visas shall be the responsibility of those who wish to attend.
Start preparing for the 5th Annual Youth Assembly at the UN!
 
The Youth Assembly at the United Nations is coming up in a a few short months, so make sure that you have everything arranged for your trip in order to join us.
 
Remember- the main conference starts on International Youth Day, August 12th and ends on August 14th.
Please browse the following opportunities and deadlines:

1. Make sure you visit “APPLY TODAY!” on our website to register as soon as possible as space is limited and is filling up quickly so don’t wait for the last minute! Your acceptance letter will help you with your visa arrangements and participating in discussion boards to network with other participants.

2. Good news for those not from New York:
Because of the growing interest in our affordable Accomodation Packages, we were able to prolong the application deadline  July 9! Be sure to browse these options on our website.

3.  If you intend to work on real projects and concrete ideas regarding ways to put them in action in your own country, make sure you check apply for the Leadership Seminar. This is a definitive, life changing experience you don’t want to miss! Deadline of application: July 9!
Click here for the Leadership Retreat website.
 
Culture at the YA

Youth Performance Groups (dance, choir, theatre, etc) : Promote peace through YOUR cultural offerings!

  1. If you are a performance group of 10 or more members, write to ucpeace@faf.org to apply for the possibilty to perform at the Dag Hammarskjöld Theatre Auditorium during the Youth Assembly.

  2. Make sure you book a place at Culture Night and inform us if you would like to make a 5-10 minute presentation. Delegates are encouraged to come in traditional dress to Culture Night as a display of diversity. Please write again to ucpeace@faf.org if you are planning to make a presentation so that we can schedule you in the program!
 
  3. The organizers of the International Youth Day officially invite the delegates of the Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations to join their celebration on August 12, right outside the UN. Additionally, if you would like to perform at their International Stage, please make sure you register to the Assembly and write to YaApplications@faf.org in regards to what your presentation would be about. We will send your request to the organizers and get back to you.
 
Please find all additional information here, on our website!
 
We are so looking forward to meeting all of you in August!
Best Wishes,

Friendship Ambassadors Foundation
Youth Assembly Staff

Bapsi Sidhwa’s A Pakistani Bride: Book Launch – March 18, 2008

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About the Book

Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, particularly for women. Traveling alone from the isolated mountain village where he was born, a tribal man takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the glittering city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, he makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. Yet, as the years pass, he grows nostalgic for his life in the mountains, and his fifteen-year-old daughter envisions a romantic landscape, filled with tall men who roam the mountains like gods. Impulsively, the man promises his daughter in marriage to a man of his tribe. But once she arrives in the mountains, the ancient customs of unquestioning obedience and backbreaking work make accepting her fate as the bride of an inscrutable husband impossible. Unfortunately, the only escape is one from which there is no return.

Prescient and provocative in its assessment of the plight of women in tribal society in Pakistan, the first of Bapsi Sidhwa’s novels is a story of marriage and commitment, of the conflict between adherence to tradition and the indomitable force of a woman’s spirit. The Houston Chronicle raves, “There is a Kiplingesque quality to Sidhwa’s writing, the congenital ability to make one feel the ambiance of the locale: the stifling heat, the poverty, and yet the warmth which exists between families…”

Don’t miss…

New York reading

Aicon Gallery
206 Fifth Ave. (bet. 26th & 27th St), NYC.

Tuesday March 18, 6:30-8:30 pm
Information: Indo-American Arts Council Inc, 146West 29th St, Suite 7R3, New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212 594 3685 Email admin@iaac.us

and

Houston reading:

Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet | Houston | TX | 77005

Thursday April 3, 6:00 pm

A Rejuvenated Cama Athornan Institute Invites Students

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It was in 1923 that the eminent philanthropist, the late Seth Mervanji Cama laid the foundation of the Mancherji Framji Cama Athornan Institute.  His vision was to sow the seeds of religious knowledge and fervour in the minds and hearts of young priests so that they may become torchbearers to the community.  It is to the credit of this Institute that several learned Dasturs and scholars have passed through its portals and later guided the community.

Today, a small group of dedicated and dynamic persons belonging to the Ex-Students Association have offered their services to rejuvenate this Institute.  The Refresher Course, which has been organized by them with great success for the last five years, is a clear testimony of their deep fervour. Continue Reading

Introduction to the Zoroastrian Religion- Undergraduate course at Stanford

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For the first time Stanford University  is offering a course on Zoroastrianism. This course will be a unique way for a student to learn about Zoroastrianism, its long history, profound influence on world religions and philosophy.

Please encourage students you might know to enroll in this course for the winter 2008 quarter.

This course satisfies the Humanities requirements that all students have to take. Registration for courses begins on November 19th and we would like to make sure that we get a strong interest from the student body. Success in enrollment will keep the course offered for the following years.

The course is listed in the course catalogue as

RELIGST20 – Introduction to the Zoroastrian Religion – Professor Jennifer Rose

Winter: Tue 1:15-4:05pm – DB-Hum – 3 units – Room: Bldg 20 21G