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17th
January 2006
Assalam
Alaykum
I send you warmest eid al
adha greetings and with you a happy new hijri year. I have the pleasure of
informing you and all Muslims around you that an International Forum on Disaster
Relief will be held in Brunei Darussalam in the period 10-20 July 2006. The
forum will meet for the first 3 days and the remaining days will be for
networking and sightseeing. For more information about the forum please reply to
this message and provide your full name (including title) as well as a postal
address. If you want a travel representative to talk to you about air-ticket and
hotel packages please provide the name of your nearest international airport as
well as a day-time telephone number.
The primary objective of
the forum is to bring together Muslims concerned about disaster relief to share
experiences and build networks of practical cooperation in the field. The term
disaster is used here in a comprehensive way to cover major disasters like
earthquakes, hurricanes, and disease epidemics that usually catch media
attention as well as small-scale disasters that happen in communities such as
fire, environmental, and road hazards.
The secondary objective of
the forum is to encourage Muslim tourism to
The forum will feature
plenary presentations by guest speakers of international stature and specialized
parallel workshops at which papers will be presented and will be discussed.
Preference will be given to papers on actual field experiences in disaster
relief.
The working language of the
forum will be English. Simultaneous translations will be available where
requested into Arabic.
Invitation to the forum is
open to all Muslims concerned about more effective networking in facing
disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, epidemics, famine etc. They may be
ordinary members of Muslim communities, or professionals engaged in disaster
relief and medical care, or organizational leaders or policy
makers.
Hoping to see you in Brunei
Darussalam in July.
Wassalam
Dr Omar Hasan Kasule, Sr.
Professor of Epidemiology
and Islamic Medicine
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