14th annual gala unveils the next chapter for Muslim Women’s Coalition
Photos by Lila Aryan PhotographyThe Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition 2024 Board of Directors, Front row, left to right, Ream Bahhur, board secretary, Dr. Dima Adl, Janan Najeeb, founder and executive director, Dr. Sahar Kayata, board treasurer, Soniya...
Madison Consultant Helps Create Workplace Empathy
Maintaining a diverse workplace is a goal of many businesses and non-profits. The Black Lives Matter movement has only heightened concerns about diversity and inclusivity in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. In Madison, a new change management...
How One Company Is Bringing Muslim Party Decor To The Masses
Tasmiha Khan for Forbes Eid Party With Eid-ul-Adha coming up end of this month, Muslims all over the world look forward to this holiday. Many choose to decorate their homes to create a festive atmosphere for their families and loved ones. However, the...
WHAT MAINSTREAM LITERATURE STILL NEEDS TO GET RIGHT ABOUT MUSLIM WOMEN
Anmol for Book Riot Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. —Jeanette Winterson Books and literature are meant to be an escape into worlds that aren’t our own. But what happens when the worlds they are...
Salam School to launch the 2020-21 academic year 100% online
School Board responds to Milwaukee’s volatile COVID-19 situation Salam School of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest Islamic school, will begin the 2020-21 academic year 100% online, as part of a three-phase opening plan, the Salam School Board decided...
IRC Book Review: ‘In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam’
Elise Bellin, Librarian of the Islamic Resource Center, wrote this book review as part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights...
Democrat Joe Biden snags support of prominent Muslim Americans
Al Jazeera Tom Brenner/Reuters Several prominent Muslim American elected officials endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter organised by Emgage Action before an online summit on Monday that featured the presumptive Democratic nominee. Among those...
Harvard and Cambridge-educated policy analyst Halah Ahmad pushes for change with values learned at home.
Halah Ahmad completing the Coro Fellows Program In our time, with its extreme division and civic unrest, many people are mobilizing for the first time to push for change. Streets surge with nonviolent protests, demanding a halt to racial, ethnic, economic...
Proud to be Palestinian: Bella Hadid Defends her Heritage
Laila Shadid for Arab America pagesix.com “I am proud to be Palestinian,” supermodel Bella Khair Hadid posted on her Instagram story after the social media platform flagged a photo of her father’s old passport—his birthplace, Palestine. Bella Hadid...
US elections and Muslims
S Qaisar Shareef for The News PK The Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, has recently appointed Farooq Mitha, an American of South Asian heritage, as his director of outreach to the American Muslim community. The election is less than four...
