Day 1 - Monday 20th July 2009
Sister's diary  - Written by Sohaila Yusuf, KSIMC Dubai

We finally arrived at the Imam Khomeni International Airport in Tehran at about 10:30 pm on Sunday. As I took my first step out of the plane, I felt goose bumps all over my body as I was stepping into Tehran after 9 long years! As we proceeded towards the exit, we were given a very warm welcome by the volunteers of The World Federation who then directly set us off to a 90 minute ride towards the Holy city of Qum, where we entered ‘Jamiatuz Zahra’ for the first time; this was going to be our ‘home’ until end of the camp. We were then joined by our African sisters at about 7am in the next morning.

Due to the inability to call out to Europe, Africa, and the UAE from the Islamic Republic of Iran currently, parents of campers are requested to use the following contact numbers to contact their children.  

We are pleased to announce the launch of this years Summer Camp 2009 in Sweden.

The camp will inshallah be held from 23 July 2009 to 2 August 2009, for boys and girls aged 11-16 years, in separate camps.

To launch this years’ camp we have now opened the application process for mentors and staff to the community through an application form. (Applications for campers will be onine soon)

We would like to invite all those who are interested in taking on a role during the Sweden camp to fill in this application form online. We are looking for mentors on both, the boys and girls camps as well as teachers, kitchen staff and chefs.

Shaykh Mohammed Ali Ismail with Sayyid Mohsin Hashimi

Muballigheen Training Programme (MTP)

By the Grace of Allah (swt), the second year of the Muballigheen Training Programme (MTP) at the Islamic Institute for Postgraduate Studies (IIPS), Sayyida Zainab (s), began on 6 September 2008. This year, six more students have joined the four year course in which students learn a wide range of traditional Islamic subjects in Arabic as well as gaining a Masters degree for modules completed in tailor-made modern academic subjects in English.