When is Eid al-Fitr 2024 and how is it celebrated?
As a new moon was not sighted on Monday evening after Maghrib prayers, Muslims in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries will fast one more day, completing 30 days of Ramadan. The first day of Eid will then be celebrated on Wednesday, April 10. The first...
In Gaza, the cease-fire accentuates the barbarity of the war
Palestinians walk by buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Nov. 25, 2023, on the second day of the temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (RNS) — The...
Three Palestinian students aged 20 shot in Vermont, US: What to know
According to police the victims were speaking Arabic and two were wearing keffiyehs when attacked in Burlington.Three young Palestinian men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont in the US weeks after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy...
Prestigious Amsterdam documentary festival faces boycott and protests following anti-Palestinian statements
FILMMAKERS AND ATTENDEES PROTESTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE AND AGAINST IDFA’S STATEMENTS, AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER 13, 2023. Filmmakers are taking action against the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) following the festival’s...
Harvard Law Review editors vote to kill article about genocide in Gaza
Students protest for Palestine during a football game as the Harvard Crimson take on the Yale Bulldogs on Nov. 18, 2023. Photo: Williams Paul/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesA WEEK AFTER Hamas’s October 7 massacre, by which time Israel’s all-out assault on...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosts dialogue on Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Photos by Cherrie Hanson(Left-right) Professor Caroline Seymour-Jorn; Rabbi Joshua Herman, executive director of Hillel Milwaukee; Professor Shale Horowitz, Ph.D.; and Othman Atta, executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee participate in the...
Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center helps new MPS teachers from Nigeria feel at home
Photos by Kamal Shkoukani Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center hosted a welcome event Oct. 28 for new teachers Milwaukee Public Schools recruited from Nigeria to help fill the teacher shortage. Facing a growing teacher shortage, Milwaukee Public Schools hired...
In a flash, Melissa Joudah lost 60 family members and use of her legs
Melissa, 16 months old, was pulled out of the rubble, completely still and quiet [Atia Darwish/Al Jazeera]Deir el-Balah – About 4am one night during the second week of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, Yasmeen Joudah woke up to her mobile phone ringing...
Give Thanks
Embracing Gratitude Year-Round: A Muslim’s PerspectiveEvery time I walk up to the third floor of my apartment, I notice the wreath hanging on my downstairs neighbor’s door. “Give Thanks” it reads all around in a pretty script, entangled with faux autumn...
Milwaukee family mourns multiple close relatives killed in Gaza
Milwaukee's Abu Shawish family closely tracks casualties among their big family in Gaza. Brothers Bassam, Sargon, Yasser and Mhammad Abu Shawish flank their mother Fatemeh. Mhammad's son-in-law Yahia Sarhan, far right. Mhammad Abu Shawish, 60, of Milwaukee...
