Australian Muslim Artists International Photography Competition 2015 ends this month

Source Australian Muslim Artists website.

Australian Muslim Artists (AMA) are organising the AMA International Photography Competition 2015. The deadline is November 20, 2015.

Photographs taken with a mobile phone or camera are accepted. All participants will have the opportunity to see their work posted on the AMA Photography Wall.

Interested?

Read the terms and conditions
Register to participate. There is a standard administration fee of A$20. This fee covers up to three submissions per application and must be paid to validate the entry. Competitors may submit up to four applications (a total of 12 photographs).

Australian Centre for Islamic Finance announces January Islamic finance course

The Australian Centre for Islamic Finance (AusCIF) is running four weeks of online classes about Islamic finance, with Q&A sessions from 21 January 2015.

Students spend four to six hours a week over four weeks on the class as they wish. There are live online classes every Wednesday and Thursday from 7 to 9pm AEST (Melbourne/Sydney time) with 12 months' access to all class recordings and lecture notes.

The course will provide practical training and opportunity to explore the key principles of Islamic finance, which AusCIF says is now a A$1.7 trillion-dollar global industry. The centre says those who want to understand more about the rules concerning wealth-related issues in Islam, Islamic banking and finance, are likely to benefit, including, but not limited to practitioners, professionals, lawyers, analysts, regulators, students and imams.

Almir Colan, Director of AusCif and an adviser to several institutions that provide Islamic finance and investment, will deliver the course. He was a consultant lecturer and board member for the Master of Islamic Banking and Finance Course at La Trobe University and a member of the Advisory Reference Group for the Bachelor of Accounting/Associate Degree of Accounting at NMIT. Most recently, he advised the Securities & Investments Institute Asia-Pacific in the area of sukuk and Islamic capital markets. Colan holds an MBA from Deakin University and a Master of Islamic banking and finance degree from La Trobe University. 

“The AusCIF course is spectacular; it provides the student with a concise yet holistic understanding of the vastly growing Islamic finance industry and its innovative shari'ah compliant products... what I mostly found intriguing was its practical approach on dealing with everyday transactions," said Sheikh Moustapha Sarakibi in a testimonial online.

The course is A$197, with an early bird discount of 25% if the registration is made with the using promotion code AUSCIF25 by 1 December 2014. More about a students' discount is available here.

Click here to register. 

*Images from the AusCIF website.