Good health begins with peace of mind
Photos by Cherrie Hanson SIHA (Striving to Improve Health for All) founding members, left to right, Laila Azam Ph.D., Amal Jaber, M.E., Fauzia Qureshi, B.S., Islam Elayan, M.S.N., and Thalia Williams, Ph.D., came together in 2018 to develop public health...
Utilizing Higher Education and Political Prowess to Inspire an Ideological Shift
The Muslim American community is at a generational turning point, one that calls not for cautious optimism or slow, negotiated progress, but for decisive and unapologetic agenda-setting. For too long, we have been trained to believe that our victories lie...
Over 100 journalists call for foreign media access to Gaza as pressure on Israel mounts
With Israel continuing to deny international media access, global coverage has relied almost exclusively on Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. (AFP/File)LONDON: More than 100 prominent journalists have called for “immediate and unsupervised foreign press...
Wisconsinites hear eye-witness account of “horrific man-made catastrophe” in Gaza
Photo by Sandra Whitehead“Let’s not forget, this is a man-made catastrophe. It is entirely preventable,” U.S. Trauma Surgeon Feroze Sidhwa said about the “horrendous” conditions in Gaza, after serving five weeks there on medical missions.“I’m a physician...
Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common
Kamchatka Krai earthquake location. USGSToday at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east.Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s powerful...
Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Voices Sudden Pivot on Gaza
The death of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Assaf, from northern Gaza, as a result of the famine and humanitarian crisis in the Strip, July 2024. (Hossam Shabat/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally...
Faith in Action: Wisconsin and Michigan Green Muslims commitment to protect the Great Lakes
Photos courtesy of Wisconsin Green Muslims Huda Alkaff, founder and director of Wisconsin Green Muslims was one of 70 organizations who participated in the "Fish for the Future" campaign to protect the Great Lakes. On Saturday, July 12th, 2025 in...
The global Church has failed its duty to challenge the Gaza genocide
Pope Leo XIV on the loggia after his election, May 8, 2025. (Photo: Edgar Beltrán / The Pillar / Wikimedia)We have all witnessed close to two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza but heads of the church—its spiritual leaders, its bishops, its pastors—have...
Nearly 80 Expelled at Columbia: Can Students No Longer Protest Without Paying the Price?
Columbia University has expelled or suspended nearly 80 students, some for up to three years, and revoked degrees in response to participation in antiwar demonstrations on campus, including the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampments that captured national...
Palestinian author/filmmaker brings “It Could Have Been Me,” a children’s story about Gaza, to Milwaukee
Photos and stills courtesy of Lina AbdulkarimLina Abdulkarim’s first book, It Could Have Been Me, was among 20 books worldwide to be longlisted for the Middle East Monitor’s 2025 Palestine Book Awards.Ask children’s author and filmmaker Lina Abdulkarim...
