{"id":1049,"date":"2009-03-16T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-03-16T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:32:01","slug":"dubai-womens-college-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/dubai-womens-college-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Womens College in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"hidefrompromo\" style=\"font-size: 10px; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; color: rgb(51,51,51)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"225\" alt=\"DWC Second Life mosque at night\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2009.03.15a_013_300px.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDWC mosque at night<\/div>\n<p>When you think of Muslim women in the Arab world, what comes to mind?&nbsp;Probably not Second Life.&nbsp;Yet last year the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Arab_Emirates\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/dwc.hct.ac.ae\/\">Dubai Womens College<\/a> opened its second campus in Second Life, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20090314\/PERSONALFINANCE\/95426429\/1056\/BUSINESS\">article<\/a> this week in the United Arab Emirates&rsquo; newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\">The National<\/a> Most of their Second Life land is off limits to outsiders, but in 2008 Matt Kwong was given a tour of the virtual campus and wrote a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080608\/PAGETHREE\/497191890\">article<\/a> about the college and the activities of its students.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the public part and found this little mosque, which according to a sign there is a typical residential area mosque.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s positioned facing Mecca on the Second Life grid.&nbsp;If you are a Second Life member, you can teleport to it at <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Dubai%20Womens%20College\/209\/61\/30\">slurl.com\/secondlife\/Dubai%20Womens%20College\/209\/61\/30<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWC mosque at night When you think of Muslim women in the Arab world, what comes to mind?&nbsp;Probably not Second Life.&nbsp;Yet last year the United Arab Emirates&#8216; Dubai Womens College opened its second campus in Second Life, according to an article this week in the United Arab Emirates&rsquo; newspaper The National Most of their Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/dubai-womens-college-in-second-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dubai Womens College in Second Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,123,146],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-metaverse","tag-second-life","tag-virtual-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}