‘Nobody can occupy your imagination’: From Ground Zero’s producer on documenting his native Palestine
Poignant but with moments of dark humour … From Ground Zero by Rashid Masharawi documents 22 short stories in Gaza. Photograph: Cosmic Cat Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi,...
Biden nominates first US Muslim woman to federal court bench
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury (left), a civil rights lawyer of Bangladeshi descent, would serve in a federal district court in New York state if her nomination is confirmed [File: Rick Bowmer/AP Photo] US President Joe Biden has nominated the first Muslim-American woman to...
Cracking the code: Dr. Reem Mahjoub opens a dental clinic and creates a rewarding life
Dr. Reem Mahjoub with her husband Rayyan Najeeb and their daughter Yara celebrate the opening of True Dental on Milwaukee's Near West Side in February 2021.“When our parents talk, they joke that we cracked the code on work-life balance,” said Brookfield...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: As MLK Day Falls on Muhammad Ali’s Birthday This Year, We Recognize Black Muslims Who Contributed to the Civil Rights Movement
Classrooms everywhere last Friday were playing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream,” speech, the iconic speech that is an oral legacy that has lasting global resonance. The content of that speech shouldn’t be seen as simplifying the mission and those behind the...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali’s Surprising Secret Friendship
In 1961, an athlete named Cassius Clay prepared for a bout with Duke Sabedong in Las Vegas. The 10-round boxing match was the young boxer’s seventh, but his swagger and charm had already gained him admirers. That day, the man who would soon become Muhammad...
Milwaukee Muslims play key roles in the city’s 38th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
First place winner (grades 9-10) Leila Muhammad of Ronald Reagan IB High School said, “I must speak so that my ancestors' sacrifices and struggles will not be in vain.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s calls for civil rights and his methods of peaceful...
Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant
Surgeon Bartley P Griffith pictured with David Bennett earlier this month.A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental seven-hour...
Palestinian-American man, 80, found dead after being detained in Israeli raid
Men stand next to a poster of Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed Asad, 80, in the village of Jiljilya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 12. ReutersAn 80-year-old Palestinian-American man was found dead after being handcuffed and detained during an...
Milwaukee Muslims intervene to stop redistricting and maintain Muslim voting power.
Milwaukee's Common Council approved the map (left) in November in decennial redistricting after the 2020 census. Following its veto by Mayor Tom Barrett, several Hispanic organizations proposed new maps to expand LatinX influence (map on right by Forward...
How Mo Salah Became the New King of Football
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool is wearing a nervous smile and a gold ceremonial chain the size of a saucer, the kind worn to greet royalty or a foreign dignitary—which feels appropriate, because it's not every day you get a visit from the Egyptian king. It's a cloudless...
