Reborn
A journey like no other, Reborn speaks to those amongst us who have
returned to the eternal faith and how they came to where they are. This
episode we speak to Kristiane Backer, the Author of From MTV to Mecca
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Kristiane Verena Backer[1] (born 13 December 1965[1]) is an art dealer with a previous career as television presenter, television journalist and author residing in London. She was inspired by Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan and he was the reason behind her conversion to Islam.
At the age of 15, Backer went to the USA as an exchange student for a year.[4][5]
From 1987 to 1989 Backer volunteered at the private radio station Radio Hamburg.[6][7]
In 1989 she moved to London to work at the then Europe-wide, exclusively English-language TV channel, MTV Europe.[7] Backer was the first German to present and VJ there and among the programmes she presented were The Coca-Cola Report, The European Top 20 and Awake on the Wild Side.[8][7] She remained there until 1996.[5] While still at MTV Europe, she created and moderated the youth program Bravo TV on the German TV channel RTL II from 1993–95.[7]
From 1996 to 1999 she presented the daily cultural programme The Ticket on NBC Europe.[7]
From 2000 to 2009, Backer continued to do TV presenting as well as voiceover work.[7] In 2005 she presented the in-flight music show for Emirate Airlines.[7]
For her work as a television presenter, Backer was awarded a Goldene Kamera award in 1994[9] and in 1993 and 1994 two Bravo Otto awards.[10][11]
Backer also hosts and presents conferences, business presentations, and galas throughout Europe.[11]
Personal life
In 1992, Backer began dating former Pakistanicricketer and future Prime Minister Imran Khan.[12][13] He gave her books on Islam and took her travelling with him through Pakistan.[5] In 1995, she converted to Sunni Islam from Protestantism. The relationship ended after the three years. According to Backer, she and Khan were planning to get married and move to Skardu. Khan ended the relationship on the advice of his spiritual leader.[14][15][16] In reality, he had been secretly planning his marriage to Jemima Goldsmith since September 1994.[17]
She does not wear a headscarf at all times but insists that
"women who cover themselves are not discriminated against but
respected." In May 2009 she published the book From MTV to Mecca – How Islam Changed My Life
On 14 April 2006, she married the Moroccan television journalist Rachid Jaafar.[18] She and Jaafar later divorced.[18] Backer lives in London and works as a fine art consultant.[11]
My charming, highly educated, and deadly father for no fault of his! His sister confessed to me in front of my mother (of 11 mostly devils!) and eldest sister (a venomous viper!) to me that her husband had sacrificed piglets to destroy him and his children because of greed!
My father never quite abandoned Islam, but he lost GOD completely!
How to Read a Book Part 1
A Zaytuna Faculty Lecture
by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Mark Hanson.
1001 Inventions and The Library of Secrets - starring Sir Ben Kingsley as Al-Jazari
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare and stare and sit Until they're hypnotised by it, Until they're absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly junk. Oh yes, we know it keeps them still, They don't climb out the window sill, They never fight or kick or punch, They leave you free to cook the lunch And wash the dishes in the sink -- But did you ever stop to think, To wonder just exactly what This does to your beloved tot? IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES! 'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say, 'But if we take the set away, What shall we do to entertain Our darling children? Please explain!' We'll answer this by asking you, 'What used the darling ones to do? 'How used they keep themselves contented Before this monster was invented?' Have you forgotten? Don't you know? We'll say it very loud and slow: THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ, AND READ and READ, and then proceed To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks! One half their lives was reading books! The nursery shelves held books galore! Books cluttered up the nursery floor! And in the bedroom, by the bed, More books were waiting to be read! Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales And treasure isles, and distant shores Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars, And pirates wearing purple pants, And sailing ships and elephants, And cannibals crouching 'round the pot, Stirring away at something hot. (It smells so good, what can it be? Good gracious, it's Penelope.) The younger ones had Beatrix Potter With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter, And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and- Just How The Camel Got His Hump, And How the Monkey Lost His Rump, And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul, There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole- Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks, The screams and yells, the bites and kicks, And children hitting you with sticks- Fear not, because we promise you That, in about a week or two Of having nothing else to do, They'll now begin to feel the need Of having something to read. And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy! You watch the slowly growing joy That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen They'll wonder what they'd ever seen In that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen! And later, each and every kid Will love you more for what you did.
late 15c., "the classical Academy," from French Académie, from Latin Academia, from Greek Akademeia "grove of Akademos," a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales (his name apparently means "of a silent district"), whose estate, six stadia from Athens, was the enclosure where Plato taught his school.
The A[cademy], the Garden, the Lyceum, the Porch, the Tub, are names used for the five chief schools of Greek philosophy, their founders, adherents, & doctrines: the A., Plato, the Platonists & Platonism; the Garden, Epicurus, the Epicureans, & Epicureanism; the Lyceum, Aristotle, the Aristotelians, & Aristotelianism; the Porch, Zeno, the Stoics, & Stoicism; the Tub, Antisthenes, the Cynics, & Cynicism. [Fowler]
Sense broadened 16c. into "any school or training place." Academy awards (1941) so called for their distributor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.