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Noor is a two-act play by Akbar Ahmed about the abduction of a young woman named Noor and her three brothers who represent currents inside modern Muslim communities: a Sufi, a secular government bureaucrat, and an angry fundamentalist.

It is Ramadan. Daoud comes home and talks with his brother Abdullah. Soldiers of unknown background have abducted their younger sister Noor. Daoud is angry and blames Americans for this and most of the world's other woes. Abduallah urges calm and compassion. Ali returns and recounts the abduction of Noor and his own detention. Aggressive soldiers break into the house to search it, then leave. About Noor, Abduallah proposes consulting a Sufi sheikh. At the same time, Ali recommends he use his connections in a government ministry, and Daoud implies an act of violence would be the best response.

Auntie Fatima, Noor's aunt and mother of Noor's finance Rahman, expresses concern that in detention Noor's "honor" may have been violated and has come to call off the engagement. The three brothers defend Noor and try to point out she loves Rahman and that love itself should triumph, and their father goes to talk to his sister Fatima. To bring back Noor, Abduallah prays, while Daoud blames "the Crusaders" and urges violence; they disagree about the true nature of Islam. Noor returns. She is strong and wise, and brings peace to the three brothers' disagreements.

Following in the footsteps of his countrymen, Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad is another spinner from Afghanistan who is popular on the franchise T20 league circuit. His rare skillset - left-arm wristspin - led to opportunities across the globe even as a teenager.

After making his first-class debut in 2019 at the age of 14, Noor was only 15 when he landed a contract with Melbourne Renegades, making him the youngest player in BBL history. A Pakistan Super League gig with Karachi Kings followed in 2021, and then came a maiden call-up to the Afghanistan team. However, it was after he took 10 wickets in the 2022 Under-19 World Cup that Noor made his international debut in a T20I against Zimbabwe, and won the Player of the Match award for taking four wickets.

An ODI debut came in November 2022 and Noor was part of the Afghanistan squad for the 2023 ODI World Cup and the 2024 T20 World Cup. He took 16 wickets in his maiden IPL season, contributing significantly to Gujarat Titans' run to the final.

The Noor Festival of short plays tackles Middle East-related topics and offers a great theatre experience through original comedic and dramatic short plays. Its mission, as the name noor (light) suggests, is to enlighten savvy theatergoers about the Middle East while entertaining them.

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"It's been just over a year now, and here we are: Noor is walking and her amputated limb has healed very well. We took her measurements and fitted her with the first prosthesis. Then we began training her to walk with it using a variety of methods - activities, games, and also showing her how other children did things. We tried everything to get good results."

Her step-mum remembers Noor's first steps with her prosthesis. Her entire family breathed a sigh of relief and happiness. Noor was showered with sweets and flowers and there was even a big party in her honour.

"Her life has changed completely. Imagine what she's been through in the last year. Even her father tells us that at home, Noor plays, jokes and is really active. It's as if she has managed to come to terms with the disaster she's experienced and allowed herself to move on."

For HI's partners, Noor's story has made them even more motivated to work with people with disabilities and people who have suffered a major traumatic shock. Their priority is to work with them until their condition improves.

HI is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

When the Pakistani scholar Akbar Ahmed arrived at American University in August 2001 as the new Ibn Khaldun chairman of Islamic Studies, he thought he knew what work lay ahead: Teach classes, write books and share his deep knowledge of Islamic religion and culture.

A month later, as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were in ashes and flames, Ahmed quickly realized he had an urgent and timely mission: Bridge the yawning chasm between the West and the Muslim world.

Ahmed, 64, whom the BBC has dubbed "probably the world's best-known scholar on contemporary Islam," tirelessly promotes interfaith relations through his scholarship (he has 30 books to his credit); his television appearances on CNN, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Nightline" and elsewhere; and his public dialogues with Judea Pearl, father of slain Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl.

Now Ahmed has found a new forum in which to communicate his message. His first theatrical drama, "Noor," will receive its world premiere in a staged reading tonight at 6 as part of Theater J's "Voices From a Changing Middle East" series, part of this summer's Capital Fringe Festival.

"Noor," directed by Shirley Serotsky, is the tale of three brothers who try desperately to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped by unidentified soldiers during Ramadan. (Noor means light in Arabic and is one of Islam's 99 names for God.) The play's setting is unnamed; in an introductory note, the playwright says it could be Baghdad, Cairo, Karachi or Kabul.

Each brother represents a different ideological position in the contemporary Islamic world. The eldest, Abdullah, is a Sufi mystic whose sheik counsels him to rely on prayer. The second brother, Ali, is a lawyer who appeals for help from a government minister who turns out to be corrupt. The third, Daoud, sees no recourse except violence.

The catastrophe deepens when the mother of Noor's fiance breaks off the engagement, refusing to allow her son to marry a girl who almost certainly has been raped. The play concludes with the return of Noor (played by Ahmed's daughter, Nefees Ahmed, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda). Noor reads a poem from Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet, about two lovers meeting in a field "out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing."

The play's message is one of religious tolerance, placing it squarely in the tradition of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 18th-century drama "Nathan the Wise," in which three major religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- are shown to have deeper commonalities than differences. But in "Noor," the brothers exemplify the three principal methods adopted by Muslims to cope with the crisis of modern Islam -- a crisis that scholars date to the rise of industrialization in the 19th century and the concomitant spread of Western ideas about equality, democracy and women's rights.

Ahmed says his goal is to enlighten Americans about the diversity of positions within the Muslim world -- which is the overriding theme of his recently published book "Journey Into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization."

He says that what the West views as violence motivated by religious extremism is actually often motivated by mainstream Muslims' attempts to defend their honor and dignity. He also is highly critical of the American media for propagating images of Muslims as mindless and bloodthirsty. Ahmed avers that these inflammatory media images, along with the American military presence in the Middle East, "create the perception that Islam is under attack. This makes ordinary Muslims look to those who can stand up and fight back."