Louise Cainkar, Ph.D. — Leading scholar of the Arab/Muslim American experience
Louise Cainkar, Ph.D., poses with her 2009 book, "Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11." It's publication helped establish her as the nation's leading scholar of Arab and Muslim Americans.Community and political...
Donations pour in to rebuild Gaza bookshop
AFP Over $210,000 raised, tens of thousands of books donated via global campaign Samir Mansour’s shop was destroyed in multiple Israeli airstrikes in May LONDON: Cash and book donations have flooded in to help rebuild one of Gaza’s largest and oldest bookshops, a...
More than 450,000 people apply to perform Hajj during first 24 hours of registration
File/AFP Of those registering, 60 percent were men and 40 percent were women No priority will be given to those who apply early and registration will be open till June 23 JEDDAH: An electronic portal for domestic pilgrims received more than 450,000 applications within...
MUSLIM COVID-19 VACCINE INFORMATION TEAM JOINS WISCONSIN’S FIGHT AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS
MMWC Covid Education Team Members - Basma Daham, Hannah Zahngenner, Tasneem Jassar and other volunteers. Mouna Photography & MMWC Covid Education Team Members for the Wisconsin Muslim Journal As pandemic restrictions eased and many of us began...
Palestinian medics on the front line fighting to save lives
Nir Elias/Reuter Israeli forces and settlers are targeting Palestinian protesters – and the medics trying to rescue them. Niilin, occupied West Bank – Bassem Sadaqa points at a bullet hole lodged in the driver’s door of the ambulance he drives, tangible evidence of...
French Muslims pay heavy price in COVID pandemic
VALENTON, France, June 15 (Reuters) - Every week, Mamadou Diagouraga comes to the Muslim section of a cemetery near Paris to stand vigil at the grave of his father, one of the many French Muslims to have died from COVID-19. Diagouraga looks up from his father's plot...
“Muslim Avengers” tackle maligned Muslim media portrayals
Riz Ahmed and his colleagues are addressing Muslim misrepresentation in film. Many of us were devastated by the news earlier this month that a Muslim family in Canada, out for an evening walk, were run down by a pick-up truck driven by a young man motivated by...
Ardern Says NZ Mosque Attack Film Should Focus on Muslim Community Not Her
REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern leaves after Friday prayers at Hagley Park outside Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand March 22, 2019. WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that New...
Hate Wiped Away A Muslim Canadian Family. Here’s How Friends Want Them Remembered
Four Afzaal family members were killed in the London, Ontario, truck attack. Not shown is the youngest son, who survived. The attack was horrendous: Three generations of a Muslim Canadian family killed, leaving a 9-year-old child orphaned. The motive was horrific:...
Palestinians and Colombians Unite In first joint cultural event
Mouna Photography for the Wisconsin Muslim Journal Sarah, 7, of Milwaukee smiled broadly and wiggled, giddy in her seat, as a henna artist painted a heart on her little hand and filled it with a crisscross pattern. She told her it was the keffiyeh, a...
