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IIUM,7 August 2009- The opening ceremony of Islamic Festival ’09 (i-fest) organized by Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Students’ Society was launched by the Deputy Dean of Islamic Revealed Knowledge, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohd Farid Mohd Shahran today at IIUM Experimental Hall.

Beginning from 7-16 August, the festival choose the theme of “Towards Creating an Exemplary Muslim Ummah” as their motivation this year. Among the interesting programs offered are IRK Sport Day, Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Islamic Mega Business, IT Workshop on Web Making and many more.

The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. with the crowd of 60 students on the theme talk of “Deviant Thought and its Challenges to the Muslim Community” by Dr. Syamsuddin Arif from the Department of General Studies.

There are also a multimedia presentation and nasyeed performance by Indonesian nasyeed group, Al-Amin Voice. Other than that, there is also question and answer session on the theme talk from the students to the speaker.

These 10 days festival was sponsored by Kementerian Penerangan, Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), Bank Rakyat and (YAPEIM) as the official sponsors.