Azza Karam Quotes
Egypt
Azza Karam is an Egyptian professor and author, who is known for being the first woman executive director of Religions for Peace.
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Working with religious actors on all aspects of human rights carries both challenges and opportunities.
This generation is growing up at a time when even what it is to be a man or a woman is being radically redefined.
The world of religion is vast and difficult for us to quantify and categorize into neatly distinct entities.
I see hope and change in attitudes and practices through the voice of women and men of faith as they stand in solidarity with one another.
You don’t really become politicized by a certain event; you grow up politicized.
We need these Interreligious Councils to be strengthened so they can serve the shared well-being of their nations effectively and in a timely manner.
Anyone who has studied Arab societies in the last thirty years will attest to how socially active, politically informed, and economically engaged women have been.
Sex is for procreation, nothing else. God forbid you should even think of enjoyment.
Goal 17 of the SDGs notes that a successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector, and civil society.
By understanding or appreciating the religious as part of the civic, and thus “right-sizing” the role of religion rather than assuming it is the answer to all things, whether good or evil.
If there is one lesson we keep learning from history, and that has been highlighted of late by the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, is that people change their own cultures from within all the time.
I think that misperceptions are always going to be part of our lives. I also think that diversity is meant to be our key challenge in life.
It's one thing to work at an organization, it’s an entirely different thing to lead it. When you work at an organization, it’s easier to be the “servant of it.
Violence is against the very fabric of any faith tradition. When the faiths come together, any form of violence is absolutely abhorrent and out of the question.
The instrumentalisation of religion is as old as religion itself. So it behoves us to be alert to both the goodness and the harm which “using religion” can cause.
The religious common ground to all faith traditions is that human life is sacred. And the most vulnerable amongst us are the ones that deserve the most from each of us.
Yet the realms of religion dwarf all of us. At the same time, we are living in times where power brokers communicate in soundbites (if not tweets), and this only complicates how we understand.
Secularism comes in many shades and varieties, but it has never manifested—not even here in the United States—in the manner of a total repudiation of religion.
Since 2000, religious engagement (in diverse forms) has become the ‘normal’ for many inside the UN system. But the question is—or should always be—are we wise about the how and why of this?
I want our world leaders to consult not just the pope, but an imam, a rabbi, and so on. Together, they can hold each other accountable.