Participation

Shifa TV is a collaborative effort and welcomes media contributions from around the world based on our submission guidelines. For more details, please write to us at info@shifa.tv and inform us about your talents. Please note that all submissions will be reviewed before inclusion. Content with political bias, sectarianism, hate mongering and the like will not be accepted as it is against our policy. We need your support. Please come forward and join us in this noble endeavor. To upload your submissions, click the following link: Upload Content.

Video Quality Guidelines

• Submit video content in .WMV format (Can be easily created using Windows Movie Maker)
• Use ample lighting and a good microphone where possible
• Complete the Meta Data on each submitted file as shown in the image below (Title, Subtitle, Tags, Comments — Can be made by right-clinking on the file and selecting Properties)
• Follow the general guidelines for audio and video settings shown below:

Peace Through Shifa TV

Through such programming Shifa TV hopes to achieve increased understanding and contribute towards healing and consequent peace building within communities, nations and the world at large. Its programming is in English, Urdu and any language that submissions are made in. However English sub-titling is requested.

Mission

Shifa is an Arabic word which means healing. Through the medium of the internet, Shifa TV intends to reach out to the international community with programming about youth, women, children, education, spirituality, peace, tolerance, understanding, outreach, service, intercultural communication, interfaith dialogue, the Islamic economy, counseling, the rich intellectual and spiritual legacy and contributions of the Muslim world, and many more topics of importance to the modern world. Its special focus is on creating an international youth community by orienting them about the Islamic culture in various languages. Shifa TV hopes to inshaAllah remove stereotypes and provide accurate historical information about pertinent modern topics that beg the wisdom of the old and the creative innovation of the new.

Shifa TV currently operates out of its seven studios, five based in USA and Canada – Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Houston, Vancouver (B.C.) and Toronto (Ontario), one based in Karachi, Pakistan and one in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Shifa TV is a production of the Islamic Educational and Cultural Research Center or IECRC (www.iecrcna.org), a non-profit, non-political, community-based, 501(c)3 organization providing Islamic educational, cultural, research, and community services in the USA (San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento) and Vancouver, Canada since 2002.