Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Holy Quran Award in the New York Times

Today’s New York Times features an article about the Dubai International Holy Koran Award (sic).

The article correctly states that the award is open to young Muslim men from all over the world.

I thought this was wrong, because I believed I had heard of a young woman winning in the separate women's division.

In fact, she had won the Local Holy Quran Award, which, unlike the International Award, is open to both young men and young women.