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What is the Qunoot Foundation and Qunootcast?
What is Qunoot?
Qunoot is an act of supplication performed with the hands uplifted, showing devoutness and obedience to God; considered the pinnacle of humility and piety during Salat (prayer).
Why call ourselves the "Qunoot Foundation"? What is our goal?
The Qunoot Foundation was started in November 2005 as a platform for American Shia-Muslim youth and young professionals to articulate their political, socioeconomic, cultural, and gender-related perspectives on both the Shia community and the Muslim community at large.
In short, our goal is to create spaces and programs that empower American Shia youth and young professionals to stand up and raise their hands and voices for a more just and egalitarian Muslim and global community, much like in qunoot.
How does the Qunoot Foundation achieve its goals? Currently we have four ongoing projects:
1) A biweekly Qunoot Foundation Media podcast series called "Qunootcast".
2) Qunoot Foundation funded internships at CAIR and MPAC to focus on intra-Muslim dialogue and networks.
3) Timely forums on issues essential to the development of critical awareness, activism, and networks.
4) An upcoming Qunoot Foundation Media film entitled “A Broken Promise” about sectarian violence in Pakistan.
What is the purpose of the Qunootcast series?
Qunootcast is a critical audio-series about American Shia-Muslim Cultures, Politics, Religion, and Society. Topics covered in Qunootcast episodes are meant to foster critical awareness, activism, and a sense of community amongst Shia-Muslim youth and young professionals. Qunootcast provides a venue for Shia activists, organizational leaders, academics, and religious scholars to present their knowledge, activitism, organizations, and research to a larger audience. Through the series, Shia youth and young professionals acquire a greater understanding of their religious faith and community, are promoted to take leadership roles in the American Muslim community, and how to effectively participate in the public affairs and civic organizations of the United States.
What is Qunoot Foundation Media's commitment to its audience? How can listeners contribute to Qunootcast?
Qunoot Foundation Media wants to reach new audiences and we have switched to the VOX site because it allows us to present a more visual and in-depth way of engaging the Qunootcast series. VOX provides a user friendly and stylish venue to share Qunootcasts with a broader audience. We encourage listeners to introduce others to our new site.
The Qunoot Foundation is grateful to our audience for taking the time to listen to the Qunootcast series. The Qunoot Foundation collective wants to learn how to improve the series, making it more supportive of listerns' development of critical awareness, activism, and networking. We intend to add more structure to the topics we explore and whom we interview, as well as have themed-based Qunootcast series. But we seldom hear from our audience. As a result, the collective tends to chose topics that interest us.This site provides listerns a chance to post comments and reactions to Qunootcasts right below each episode file. Also, messages to the Qunoot Foundation can be emailed directly from this site.
The Qunootcast series is uploaded to iTunes for those wishing to play episodes as a podcast. To download Qunootcast episodes 1 through 34, click here.
