穆斯林女孩为本宗教女孩创办杂志

Muslim Girl Starts Magazine Geared toward

Muslim Girls

穆斯林女孩为本宗教女孩创办杂志

 

Today Yasmine El-Safy is getting ready to send the latest issue of MG Magazine out to its' subscribers.

 

Yasmine El-Safy: I can't work up against deadlines. I get crazy.

 

Yasmine El-Safy is MG magazine's founder², publisher and editor-in-chief. She is thirteen and a half-years-old. She says she started this magazine for Muslim girls because she couldn't relate to anything in the mainstream³ media.

 

Yasmine El-Safy: They were fluffy⁴ and they just had, you know, like fashion and make-up and that's about it. I didn't see any value to any of them.

 

Living in a neighborhood in the Los Angeles area of California, with few other Muslim families, the magazine has also been a way for Yasmine to meet Muslim girls like herself.

 

Through websites and Internet discussion groups, Yasmine recruited other girls, one from as far away as Kuwait, to contribute to the magazine. They write about things such as peer pressure, and dressing⁵ modestly, and being a Muslim in a non-Muslim world. Yasmine's favorite article so far was by a university student in England.

 

Yasmine El-Safy: This was the beginning of my path to self-discovery. I looked deep into my soul and asked myself where I wanted to belong. And I found the answer staring back at me. I wanted to be with the Muslims.

 

While MG Magazine is produced by Muslim girls, there is adult supervision⁶ provided by Yasmine's mother Lyla El-Safy.

 

Lyla El-Safy: I stay out of content of the articles but I have the final say. If there is something that I think is not appropriate or is going to be divisive amongst different groups of Muslims, I tell her we can't put that in because this magazine should be for all Muslim girls.

 

Lyla El-Safy says the articles in the magazine reflect Muslim values.

 

Lyla El-Safy: Something that is important in our religious tradition is to highly value the family and to respect one's parents. And so when you hear the girls in some of the articles talking about, you know, things they would do or say you hear the respect for their family that comes through.

 

The magazine is still quite new. The number of subscribers is small but growing. The last issue sold about 120 copies. While Yasmine is gaining a lot of experience publishing a magazine, her father, Regab El-Safy, says that she is trying to grow up too fast.

 

Regab El-Safy: She is getting some aspect, which is business but dealing⁷ with it as a child, like playing or those kinds of things, like mischief⁸ with kids and those things, I don't think she's getting [to be a kid]. I mean she is getting the adult more life.

 

Still, both parents are proud of their daughter's creativity and dedication⁹ to the magazine. And as she takes this issue to the post office, Yasmine El-Safy can take a moment to appreciate the final product…

 

Yasmine El-Safy: I love seeing all my work -- everybody's work!

 

…Before starting all over again tomorrow.

 

Brian Padden, VOA news.

 

注释：

subscriber¹ [sQbs5kraibE] n. 订户

mainstream [5meInstri:m] adj. 主流的

fluffy [5flQfi] adj. 琐碎的，无聊的

recruit [ri5kru:t] v. 征募，招收

modestly [5mCdistli] adv. 谨慎地，适当地

supervision [7sju:pE5viVEn] n. 监督，管理

amongst [E5mQNst] prep. 在……中间，在……之中

mischief [5mistFif] n. 顽皮，恶作剧

1 subscriber   

n.用户，订户；（慈善机关等的）定期捐款者；预约者；签署者

参考例句：

• The subscriber to a government loan has got higher interest than savings. 公债认购者获得高于储蓄的利息。 来自辞典例句
• Who is the subscriber of that motto? 谁是那条座右铭的签字者？ 来自辞典例句

2 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

3 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

4 fluffy   

adj.有绒毛的，空洞的

参考例句：

• Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
• The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。

5 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

6 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

7 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

8 mischief   

n.损害，伤害，危害；恶作剧，捣蛋，胡闹

参考例句：

• Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。
• He seems to intend mischief.看来他想捣蛋。

9 dedication   

n.奉献，献身，致力，题献，献辞

参考例句：

• We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
• Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。