Twitter’s a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.

I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn’t take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu – that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There’d be...