Etymology and Empire: How Did the Middle East Get Its Name?
Photo Credits: AWSeebaran Who decides what we call regions of the world? Who looked at a map and thought: this is the Near East, that is the Middle East, and far off, the Far East? These names are not natural, nor are they neutral. They are products of a...
Is the Taliban’s treatment of women really inspired by Sharia?
A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021 According to Human Rights Watch, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group whose stated goal was to create a state based...
Fatima will be the first woman to win the Islamic Art Award
Fatima Killeen’s award-winning work, The Crooked Narrative 2021. Canberra artist Fatima Killeen won the first woman, the Australian Muslim Artist Art Award for $ 10,000. Killeen, a graduate of ANU’s School of Arts and Design’s First Class Honorary Painting, won her...
Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition to put on Two Day Mental Health Conference
The Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Muslim Mental Health Consortium, with generous support from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, is putting together a two day mental health conference. There...
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
Protest in Westwood, California 2002. Reining in America’s out-of-control militarism would be a wise and appropriate response to its epic defeat in Afghanistan, before the same corrupt interests drag us into even more dangerous wars against more formidable enemies...
Nearly Half the World’s Children at ‘Extremely High Risk’ for Facing Effects of Climate Crisis, Report Finds
A village official evacuates a child from a flooded area following heavy rains in Dazhou in China's southwestern Sichuan province on July 12, 2021 On Friday, the third anniversary of climate campaigner Greta Thunberg's lone protest outside the Swedish Parliament, a...
Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban may resettle in Wisconsin
People try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army base in western Wisconsin, may receive refugees who are now fleeing Afghanistan as the United States ends it mission there and the Taliban retakes the country. The Wisconsin...
The collapse of Afghan military: We’ve seen this movie before
Taliban fighters and local people seen sitting on an Afghan National Army (ANA) humvee vehicle on a street in Jalalabad province on August 15, 2021 The Taliban’s lightning offensive in Afghanistan this past weekend which saw the Afghan military hand over the country...
US lays out conditions for recognising a new Afghan gov’t
US State Department spokesman Ned Price threatened repercussions against any new Afghan government that violates human rights, particularly the rights of women. The United States has called for an inclusive new government in Afghanistan that respects human rights,...
Mother-daughter team opens new children’s clothing store in Southridge Mall
Mother and daughter owners of EverKid Dalal Dahabra and Maysoun Ahmad Opening a new children’s clothing store in the middle of a pandemic turned into an adventure for the mother-daughter owners and their entire Oak Creek family. EverKid, a children’s apparel store,...
