Scholarship established to honour the memory of my daughter died last month
tayyeba zia
The parents of Momina Cheema, a 25-year-old Pakistani student who died in a
road accident last month, announced establishment of a scholarship at the
University of Virginia School of Law, her alma mater, to honour the memory of
their daughter. The announcement was made by Momina�s parents�Tayeba Zia, a
columnist for the Daily Nawa-i-Waqt and Dr. Akhtar Cheema, a medial
specialist�on the occasion of her chehlum at their residence in Queens, a
borough of New York City.The scholarship will be funded at $ 100,000, and the
school will begin giving awards when the funding has reached $ 50,000, according
to Paul Mahoney, the Dean of school.
�The scholarship would be awarded annually and a preference would be given to
students who express an interest in Islamic law or culture,� Dean Mahoney said
in a letter to Dr. Cheema.
Momina�s parents said they also plan to set up a scholarship in Momina�s name in
Pakistan for outstanding students to help them acquire higher education.
The Chehlum was attended by a large number of the bereaved family�s friends,
civil society representatives and members of U.S. based Pakistani media.
Momina Cheema was born in Lahore, Pakistan on September 25th, 1985 and raised
in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States. She was speech champion and
valedictorian at Jackson High School in Massillon, Ohio, graduated from Duke in
2007 with a B.A. in Literature, was a 2008 A.M. graduate of Harvard�s Department
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and was attending Law School at The
University of Virginia with a judicial internship at the U.S. district court,
Eastern District of New York at the time of her death.
Momina was an energetic, passionate and brilliant woman. She had encyclopedic
knowledge of everything from pop culture to social theory, and made connections
and asked questions that illuminated the minds of all of those around her. In a
2007 email to a online community she summarized her interests as:
�post-structuralism, Marxist theory, mysticism, Nietzschean existentialism,
Althusserian anti-humanism, Dostoevsky, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Shariati,
Indo-Muslim culture, gender/sexuality (Foucault, Butler), philosophy of
language/linguistics (Austin, Deleuze)�.� Though her interests could not all be
summarized in a sentence, this should give an idea of the breadth of her
knowledge and curiosity.
Friends and family will always remember her loving personality. She passed
away after an automobile accident in Albertson, New York on Friday June 10th,
2011. She is survived by her parents Muhammad Akhtar and Tayyeba, her
younger brothers Fareed and Saeed and countless other relatives and friends who
loved her.
We hope this website will serve as a space to share memories, thoughts,
reflections, and photos of our beloved Momina.
If you would like to contact her family, her father can be reached at:
Muhammad Akhtar Cheema
8248 243rd Street
Bellerose, NY 11426
(631) 944-1245
Her brother Fareed can be reached at:
Fareed Cheema
(631) 944-1243
TAYYEBA ZIA
Columnist and Corespondent
Nawa I Waqt (USA)
www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk
The Web Site of Momina Cheema
http://www.mominacheema.com/
PFUJ SECRETARY GENERAL
her soule rest in Jannah n patience to bereved
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We all Pakistanis must appreciate the way her parents reacted to this precious loss. Instead of mourning, they have decided to keep her alive through a scholarship that would enable its beneficiaries to do left undone by the deceased. In addition to prayers, the family must be supported by all means.
Umar Cheema
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