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American Muslim Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship |
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Isra J. Bhatty’s academic and community service experience helped her become a successful candidate for the 2008 Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest international fellowship, awarded to 32 American students to study at Oxford University.
Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago in 2006 with degrees in economics and near eastern languages and literature, Isra is currently a student at Yale Law School. In Chicago, Isra chaired the city’s inner-city Muslim Action Network and worked as a translator for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Also a hip-hop artist and poet, Isra has devoted time to teaching fellow Americans about the wide variety of ways to practice and uphold the tenets of Islam.
Isra will begin at Oxford next October, where she plans on studying for a master’s in philology in evidence-based social intervention.
Posted November 21, 2007
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