WASHINGTON (Staff Report) – Pakistani-Canadian Muslim artist Fawzia Mirza has been honoured with ‘Champion of Change’ award by the White House.
The prestigious American award is conferred to artists who are able to bring about a change in their respective communities through their work and bridge gaps while highlighting issues of shared interest for different societies.
Fawzia Mirza lives in Chicago but her parents hail from Karachi, Pakistan. She’s an actor, writer, and producer and has written and produced theater, web series, short films, documentaries, and more.
Fawzia says she believes in the power of art, storytelling, and comedy to break down barriers between different identitie.
The artist also played “Ayesha Ali Trump” in a mockumentary named “The Muslim Trump Documentary,” which was based on an imagination that what might happen if Donald Trump had a Muslim daughter.
Fawzia is currently producing her first feature film, “Signature Move”, which is about a Pakistani woman finding herself through love and wrestling. The film was selected to be part of the 2016 Tribeca Film Institute All Access program.
She is also the recipient of the 2015 3Arts Award and was named a Rising Star in Indie Filmmaking by WBEZ Chicago. Fawzia Mirza also featured in “Top Ten Creative” list by Indiewire Magazine.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked the European Commission (EC) to apply a reserve clause for the country to be able to have a bigger deficit of public finance during implementation of a structural reform – the new social model.
Grybauskaitė stated the position at a meeting in Vilnius on Friday with EC Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis in charge of the euro, social dialogue, financial stability, financial services and capital market union.
During the meeting, the head of state also emphasized that the social model being implemented in Lithuania was an important structural reform, which should be subject to a reserve clause in the assessment of Lithuania's fiscal discipline, the President's Office said in a press release.
The compliance of the social model, as a structural reform of the social and labor market, to the Stability and Growth Pact will be assessed by the EC later this spring in the review of Lithuania's 2017 stability program. The pact envisages a reservation for EU countries implementing key structural reforms focused on boosting long-term financial sustainability – their costs are not included in the overview of compliance of the government sector balance and cost increase indexes to EU fiscal discipline rules.
The government sector deficit should stand at 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) this year, 0.1 percentage points below the initial draft. The government sector's structural deficit in 2017 should be at about 1.2 percent of the GDP, also 0.1 points less than projected.
Total costs of the social model should be at 0.5 percent of the GDP in 2017. The structural government sector deficit, excluding the social model costs, should be lower than the 2016 deficit this year.
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Sad news for Smithers fans. Speculation had been rife that the American actress best known for her role on the television series WKRP in Cincinnati, is about to announce her retirement from acting, at age 69, with immediate effect.
For a little while on Thursday evening, #ThankYouJan was a trending hashtag on Twitter. As many fans reminisce and look back on all the unforgettable memories, some may wonder what about now made her make the decision.
The dead in the attack on July 10 included at least eight civilians and two security personnel, according to a statement from the Nangarhar Province governor's office.
"Most of the victims were children who were working at a car wash close to the suicide bombing site," said Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council.
"An element of the progress is the capacity that we now have to believe that there is now hope," Pompeo said on July 9 during an unannounced visit to Kabul where he spoke at a joint press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Vincent is a gentleman thief who steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He falls in love with the pretty young maid Nicole, whose main goal in life is to marry a wealthy man, but Vincent is unable to tell Nicole what his vocation is or that he is financially stable if not rich. The police begin to follow the duo, beginning the chase scene that takes up the major part of the film.
On Sunday September 30, the French house will present its Spring/Summer 2019 collection at Paris Fashion Week. However, until September 25, the label is offering the public a chance to attend the show.
Last September; Givenchy launched a competition challenging fashion lovers to find its cat Purrkins. Mysterious posters swiftly appeared in Paris, London and Milan, with a code to win a place at its Spring/Summer 2018 show. This year, for its Spring/Summer 2019 collection, Givenchy, under the leadership of Clare Waight Keller, has launched a new competition: the French label has unveiled a series of logo-style stickers stuck to public locations in Paris and London. To win, Instagrammers are challenged to post a similar picture of the stickers on their accounts, with the hashtag #GivenchyFamily. Three lucky winners will have their posts reposted on Givenchy’s account and win a place at its Spring/Summer 2019 show on September 30 in Paris.