From vision to legacy, celebrating a decade of the Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival
Graphic design by Nayfa Naji For the tenth year, the Muslim Women’s Coalition will present the Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival (MMFF). The four-day event, Thursday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 5, will be held at the Oriental Theatre (2230 N. Farwell Ave.)....
Cop27: UN urges countries to address climate-displaced peoples
A boat on the dried-up bed of a section of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, on 24 July 2022 (AFP)The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is calling on world leaders to address the impact that climate...
Two Muslim Elected Officials Speak about the Importance of Working on Public Policy
Muslims are a rapidly-growing demographic in the United States and indeed throughout the world. For some, it seems logical that Muslims’ voices should be heard in policymaking and that leaders from our community should represent us, communicating our needs...
Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition president chosen to head MICAH Religious Leaders Caucus
Photo by Dick Blau Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition President Janan Najeeb, new chairperson of MICAH’s Religious Leaders Caucus, addresses a rally for fair voting Monday at Milwaukee City Hall. When Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope...
Why not voting may be a sin
It happens before almost every major election.Particularly after Friday prayers where the focus of the weekly sermon is on the importance of voting in the upcoming presidential election, or on days when a mosque may be holding a voter registration drive,...
OP-ED: VOTING RIGHTS SHOULD BE THE CAUSE OF ALL WHO BELIEVE AMERICA’S PROMISE
By Luci Baines Johnson, civil rights leader and daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.August 6, 1965 is a day etched in my heart forever.This year, on the 57th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, my father’s assistant Marie Fehmer Chiarodo wrote...
MUSLIMS VOTE ON NOVEMBER 8
Muslims.Vote is a national campaign of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, to encourage Muslim civic engagement and participation in national and state elections to amplify...
Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens
Lebanese President Michel Aoun waves for his supporters during a speech to his supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Aoun left Lebanon's presidential palace Sunday marking the end of...
The Ramifications of Iranian Unrest and What Western Muslims Can do as Allies Following Mahsa Amini’s Death
Citizens in Iran are continuing to protest weeks after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of morality police on September 16. Amini was arrested for not complying with the compulsory head scarf laws. Authorities ruled her death as a “heart...
Medical College of Wisconsin student creates free book fairs for refugee children
Photo courtesy of Maie Zagloul Maie Zagloul of Franklin, founder of Books for Chance, poses at the Sept. 2 Books for Chance Book Drive at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she is a student. When Maie Zagloul, now a second-year student at the Medical...
