When the holidays are not so jolly: Supporting our neighbors this season
Just a few days ago, one of my neighbors’ holiday decorations caught my attention and stirred memories of home. As I was washing the dishes, I glanced out the window toward the next street over and saw a display of uniquely Puerto Rican Christmas...
MKE Sports Club teaches more than athletics to Muslim youth
Photos by Kamal ShkoukaniMKE Muslim Boys Youth Sports Club kicked off to a great start on May 12 at Milwaukee Yard Indoor Sports Complex in Oak Creek.Like all teenage boys, Muslim teenage boys need social outlets that are safe, healthy and fun. The new MKE...
Book Review: What Do You Do With a Problem?
The quality and quantity of children’s books written by Muslim authors has improved significantly over the past years. While the future of Islamic literature looks bright, publishing companies, authors, and illustrators still have a way to go to catch up...
How many Muslims are there in the world? 12 beautiful facts on Muslim Diversity
In our globalized world today, it remains more important than ever to remember just how vastly diverse and wonderfully unique Muslims around the world are. While there is a Muslim ummah, or community with shared values and religious convictions, there is...
Stand By The Oppressed: Three Years After The Murder Of George Floyd
The May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd was substantial. Still, three years after this tragedy, America still struggles with the very issues that prompted it. Violence, race riots and murder have happened in cyclical patterns throughout America’s...
Illinois ID Physician’s Book Relays Life-changing Humanitarian Mission to Syria
Chicago-based pediatric infectious diseases expert, Dr. Nour Akhras, says she wants to highlight and humanize refugee resilience.What led you on your mission of serving war-torn areas? I was at a gathering when the war in Syria had first started and the...
MMWC hosts gathering for Nelson Mandela’s grandson at launch of Nakba tour
Photos by Mouna Photography Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, the grandson of globally respected icon of resistance against injustice Nelson Mandela, meets members of Milwaukee’s Muslim community. About 40 community and interfaith leaders joined the Milwaukee...
Three Wisconsin Muslims celebrate Eid at the White House
Photo courtesy of Masood Akhtar Masood Akhtar, founder of We are Many--United Against Hate, was one of three Wisconsin Muslims invited to celebrate the Eid at the White House this year. Three Wisconsin Muslims joined more than 300 Muslim Americans May 1 to...
Rhiannon Giddens, Michael Abels on Winning Music Pulitzer for Opera About Muslim American Slave: “People Are Ready for These Stories”
OMAR courtesy of LA Opera/Cory Weaver Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens was taking a walk after having dinner with her children and saw a tweet. She had won the Pulitzer Prize for music. “It was literally a total...
‘Ethnic cleansing’ on MSNBC– Nakba at 75 gains remarkable coverage by U.S. broadcasters
Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks of Israeli Apartheid and he Nakba commemorations ceremony at the Capitol to Ayman Mohyeldin on MSNBC, May 13, 2023. Screenshot. The 75th anniversary of the Nakba has brought unprecedented coverage in American media of the...
