From incarceration to community leadership—Milwaukee’s Andron Lane
Photos courtesy of Andron Lane Milwaukee entrepreneur Andron Lane, Sr. poses at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding his 2024 book, A Journey of Awakening: Healing Through Self-Love. For Andron Lane of Milwaukee, 2024 was a very good year. Accolades and...
Storyteller Salam Fatayer is ‘Uniquely Milwaukee’
Salam Fatayer is making a career out of telling other people’s stories, but her own story is as interesting as many that she’s shared on her podcast. Fatayer was born in Jerusalem, lived in Milwaukee through age 11 but moved to Palestine for six years...
Religious groups mustn’t stall on accessibility, disability activists say
Participants in the DEEN Peer Network program meet at the Islamic Institute of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Photo courtesy of DEEN Support Services. This story is part of a series on disability and faith. (RNS) — In the 1970s, Rabia Khedr was growing up in...
Photos: Yemen’s honey production a victim of war, climate crisis
A Yemeni beekeeper shows a honeycomb at a farm in the city of Taiz. [Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP]For Yemeni beekeeper Mohammed Saif, honey production used to be a lucrative business, but years of war and climate change have taken the buzz out of the family...
How to raise Muslim children in America
Muslim Americans often blame others if their children go astray, Mufti Hussain Kamani told a packed audience Sunday at Masjid Al Noor (ISM-West) in Brookfield. “We blame schools, teachers, teachers, friends, the environment, America! Please stop blaming...
Illinois Muslims optimistic after report shows they’re among country’s most diverse and fastest-growing faith communities
Fatina Khan hands out toys at an Eid holiday toy giveaway event at the Islamic Circle of North America Relief Refugee Resource Center and Food Pantry on July 7, 2022, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)Muslims living in Illinois said they...
In pictures: Meet the Palestinian fashion designer shaking up the industry despite Gaza’s blockade
In the heart of Gaza City’s downtown sits a luxurious two-storey building, with the name Nemo Design Fashion House emblazoned on it. It is one of the few fashion houses in Gaza, and the first to be owned by a female fashion designer. The fashion house was...
Milwaukee Muslims help UW-Madison summer language students prepare for semester abroad
Volunteers who speak Hindi, Urdu, Turkish and Indonesian met this month with university students from around the United States who are preparing to study overseas this fall.Volunteers from Milwaukee’s Muslim community spent an afternoon at the Islamic...
Ottawa Muslims mourn death of popular Islamic scholar
Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef, a former Ottawa resident who was the founder of the AlMaghrib Institute and was one of the first Islamic scholars to teach in English in North America, died on July 21, 2022, at the age of 47. (AlMaghrib Institute)Muslims in...
Op-Ed: Pakistani American Author’s New Book Reflects on the Racialization of American Muslims and the Solidarity We Owe Nation’s Black and Indigenous Communities
As the child of two Pakistani immigrants, I know the idea of America as a nation of immigrants can seem appealing, or even unifying. Those of us who were born elsewhere, or who have family members who were born elsewhere use the phrase to assert we belong...
