USM International Culture Week (21-26 Nov 2011). Join US

1. Cultural Talk, 22 Nov 2011, DTSP at 11 am and 5:30pm:
Come and listen to many interesting stories and topic about different cultures of the world!

Contact: Juzaili Azizi (juzaili.azizi@gmail.com)
Nur Zahiya (angelnz@gmail.com)

2. International and Local Food Festival, Dataran Merah, 21-26 Nov 2011, 10-5pm.
Contact: Pantea Keikhosrokiani (pantea.keikhosrokiani@gmail.com)

3. Cultural Exhibition, 21-25 Nov 2011, DTSP Foyer, 10-5pm :
Students from different countries will proudly display many items from their home countries for many of us to see!
Contact: Banafsheh Farahani (banafsheh.farahani@gmail.com)

4. International Movie Screening at DTSP, 21-24, 5:30pm and 8:30pm:
Admission is free!

6. Cultural Gala Nite! 25th Nov 2011, 8:15pm at DTSP!
Performances from different countries will be showed to the audience on this evening! Admission is free!
Contact: Sulaiman Nasser (sulimanco@gmail.com)

Project Advisor: Anees Janee Ali (aneesali15@yahoo.com) - (012-5823660)

1st Creative Visual Award 2011 - A USM Short Film & Photography Festival

Let’s face it: 1^st Creative Visual Award 2011 – USM Short Film & Photography Festival brings us a new concept. It is the 1^st university-based short film festival in Malaysia where not only arts students, but scienece studetns as well are directly involved in producing their filming products signaturing their own master piece. Whether you’re a student looking for ways to break into the fest circuit or a film lover looking for new ways to experience film, this student-focused festival should be on your radar. In this inception, it targets student filmmakers and photographers from Universiti Sains Malaysia. This year, we received around one hundred submissions among postgraduate students, including science and arts students.

The organization acts as a kind of incubator for student talents, with prizes to inspire the young filmmakers and photographers to keep plugging away at their passions. Anyone studing in USM can fire up a camera and submit something. The jurys are composed of film director, president of film festival, lecturers majoring on film, students, and one Dato, which add to the peer-approved flavor of the festival. In the meantime, students vote their favorite works at the showcases.

The Creative Visual Award focuses on students’ films/photographs that revolve around themes of humanity, spirituality, scientific knowledge and works that they feel “respect the dignity of the human person and environment.” In other words, the content is slightly more hopeful than entries you might find at other festivals. That’s exact meaning behind the motto of Creative Visual Award - “Visualize Your Dream”.

“It’s less a traditional festival and more a crash-course in film/photography production for students who’ve been looking to try their hand at making short films and photography,” Wang Chang Song, Project director and Chair Jury of Creative Visual Award said.

Festival of Nations (FON) with series of event including Cultural Performance, International Futsal Carnical, Fun Games, Exibition by Embassies and Im

Greetings from Postgraduate Student Association (PSA).

Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS) is organizing Festival of Nations (FON) with series of event including Cultural Performance, International Futsal Carnical, Fun Games, Exibition by Embassies and Importantly International Bazaar.

Venue: Tapak Pesta Konvo, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Date: Saturday, 15th October 2011
Time: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

International Bazaar:
Call for International Bazaar stalls (Food, Culture Merchansise and others) registration. Attached is the registration form along with the rules and regulations.

RM 100 (Internal USM) & RM200 (Public) will be charged for each booth (10x10 ft. 1 table (5x3) with 2 chairs).
Registration deadline is 20th September 2011 - Strictly First Come First Serve


For Enquiries/information:
Mr. Mohamad Zulhaimie
04-6532608
Email: fon2011@usm.my

PSA Augest 2011 Activity (Quran Recitation and Memorization Competition.)

Date: 16th-18th August 2011

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Venue: Masjid Al-Malik Khalid, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Postgraduate Student Association in collaboration with Pusat Islam USM, Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS) and BHEPP (Bahagian Hal Ehwal dan Pembangunan Pelajar) - organizing Malaysian IPT Postgraduates Quran Recitation and Memorization Competition. Universiti Sains Malaysia is organizing this competition for the first time in which many goverment Universities in Malaysia participated.

PULAU PINANG, 18 Ogos – Qari dari Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Muhammad Zulhaziman Salleh, 24, muncul johan Pertandingan Hafazan dan Tilawah Al-Quran anjuran Persatuan Pelajar Pasca Siswazah (PSA), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) yang berlangsung di sini baru-baru ini.

Beliau berjaya mendahului peserta di tempat kedua, Omar Saeed Ali, 41 dan tempat ketiga, Umar Rafsanjani, 29, masing-masing dari USM dan membawa pulang hadiah wang tunai RM 1,000, piala pusingan, plak serta sijil penghargaan.

Bagi pertandingan Hafazan, peserta tuan rumah, Abdullah Hussein Ahmed, 33, merangkul gelaran juara dan turut menggondol hadiah utama piala pusingan, wang tunai RM 1,200, plak serta sijil penghargaan.

Mohamed Tagelsir, 24, dari UTP muncul naib johan diikuti tempat ketiga, Mohamed Habashy Mubarak, 36, dari USM.

Majlis yang berlangsung di Masjid Al-Malik Khalid USM itu julung kali diperkenalkan PSA dengan penglibatan peserta-peserta pasca siswazah dari seluruh institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) tanahair.

Majlis yang dimeriahkan dengan kehadiran Naib Canselor USM, Prof. Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak itu menjadi kesinabungan penganjurannya pada tahun lalu yang hanya melibatkan para pelajar Pasca Siswazah dari USM.

Dzulkifli dalam ucapannya berkata, inisiatif yang dilaksanakan PSA itu amat digalakkan khususnya dalam memekarkan syiar Islam kepada keseluruhan masyarakat.

Katanya, langkah itu menjadi salah satu agenda yang dapat menyedarkan masyarakat berkenaan ajaran Islam yang indah dan suci, selain menunjukkan kepada masyarakat apakah erti Islam sebenarnya.

``Dalam konteks dunia yang dilanda pelbagai krisis termasuk ekonomi, alam sekitar dan moral masyarakat, kita perlu tampil dengan inisiatif seumpama ini bagi memperbetulkan apa yang pincang khususnya yang membuatkan orang melihat Islam sebagai sesuatu yang kompleks.

``Saya amat berharap majlis seumpama ini dapat dianjurkan dengan lebih meluas pada masa depan dan pihak universiti akan sentiasa memberi sokongan yang sebaiknya,’’ katanya.

Malaysian IPT Postgraduates Quran Recitation and Memorization Competition

Postgraduate Student Association in collaboration with Pusat Islam USM, Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS) and BHEPP (Bahagian Hal Ehwal dan Pembangunan Pelajar) - organizing Malaysian IPT Postgraduates Quran Recitation and Memorization Competition. Universiti Sains Malaysia is organizing this competition for the first time in which 20 Malaysian Government will participate.

Date: 16th August 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Masjid Al-Malik Khalid, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Prizes for Winners:

1st Prize - RM 1000
2nd Prize - RM 600
3rd Prize - RM 400

Please fill the application below:

Student’s Full Name:

Date of Birth: ____________________ [dd/mm/yyy]

Gender: ________________ [Male/Female]

I.C./Passport #: _____________________________

Country of Origin: _________________________

Degree & Specialization: ___________________[Masters/Ph. D]

Name of School & University: _________________________________

Email: ____________________________________________

Phone#: _________________________

Address: ______________________________________________

City:____________________ State: ____________________

Have you participated in reciting competition before: [Yes/No] _________

If Yes Please specify when & where _________________________________

Please choose one Competition Category: Recitation (by Visual) Recitation (by Memory)

Please send the registration form to usm.qurancompetition@live.com.my

OBJECTIVES:

1. To service the Holy book and promote the general standards of Quranic performance.
2. To encourage postgraduate student to read the Quran so as to instil good values and morals amongst individuals and the society we live in.
3. To encourage healthy competition by bringing together postgraduate students participants from different Malaysian universities belongs to different Islamic countries.
4. To honor outstanding reciters of Quran
   
5. To present soft image of Muslims by inviting non-Muslims postgraduate students as a guest.

PROGRAM TERMS & CONDITIONS

1 – The Malaysian IPT Post-Graduates Quran Recitation & Memorization Competition is open to all postgraduate students locally and internationally (male only).
2 - The competition is divided into two (2) categories, hafazan (whole quran) and tilawah.
3 - Each university is allowed to send two (2) participants in each category.
4 – Tilawah participants will be tested in terms of tajwid, fasahah and voice, while Tahfiz participants will be tested in terms of good memorization, tajwid and fasahah.
5 - The fee for each participant is RM30.00. Fees can be paid during registration on the day of the competition.
6 - Participants must present their student card during registration.
7 – Accomodation for two (2) days and iftar / suhr will be provided by the organizers. Travelling cost are not provided.
8 - Prizes for each category of competition is RM1000.00 for first place, RM600.00 for second place and RM400.00 for third place.
9 - Results of the contest judges are final.
10 - The participants must send the entry form before August 8, 2011 (Monday).
11 - Completed entry forms may be sent along with a copy of identity card / passport via fax 046 567 732 (the Islamic Center USM), or email to usm.qurancompetition@live.com.my.
12 - Date of competition is on August 16, 2011 (Tuesday) while the registration time is 8.30 am.

Among the invited universities are:

1. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
2. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)
3. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
4. Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK)
5. Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM)
6. Universiti Malaya (UM)
7. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
8. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
9. Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)
10. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
11. Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)
12. Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
13. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
14. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
15. Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (IIUM/UIAM)
16. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
17. Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
18. Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
19. Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UNISZA)
20. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/61781135/Surat-Jemput-Tilawah-1