Watermelon+ Launches May 8: A New Global Streaming Platform Elevating Palestinian and World Cinema
In a significant step for global independent cinema, Watermelon Pictures has announced the launch of Watermelon+, a groundbreaking new streaming platform that will go live worldwide on May 8, 2025. The platform is set to feature one of the most...
China criticizes pope over comment on Uighur Muslim minority
AP & DISRN BEIJING — China criticized Pope Francis on Tuesday over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China’s Uighur Muslim minority group. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Francis’ remarks had “no...
Ibrahim House Provides Safe Haven for Muslims Reentering Society
Mouna Photography A short walk from the Islamic Dawah Center at 5135 N. Teutonia Ave. is a 4-unit apartment building housing one of the few programs of its kind. The Ibrahim House Reentry Program for those newly released by the Wisconsin...
Across America, Muslims are becoming a fixture on the disaster relief landscape
Aysha Khan | RNS This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. (RNS) — It was 2013, and Colorado was in turmoil. Days of torrential rainfall had led to devastating flooding across 17 counties, from Colorado Springs to Fort...
‘Muslim Women Are Everything’ Turns the Page on Stereotypes
Francesca Donner |The New York Times ©Fahmida Azim Dr. Seema Yasmin’s book, born from her frustration with narrow, one-sided narratives about Muslim women, breaks apart tired old tropes “I have wanted to write this book since I was 14,...
Marquette University’s Islamic Immersion Trip shows students “the reality of Islam.”
When Marquette University professor Dr. Louise Cainkar decided to provide students with an Islamic immersion trip, Islamophobia was spiking in the United States. “If you recall, in 2016, anti-Muslim hate groups were rising. Elected officials and candidates...
Nasra Wehelie recommended to represent Madison City Council District 7
Abigail Becker | The Capital Times Selected out of nearly a dozen candidates, the City Council’s executive committee recommended Nasra Wehelie to represent Madison’s District 7 on the southwest side. Pending confirmation by the City...
Pompeo’s West Bank trip would be unthinkable for any other US Secretary of State. But not him
CNN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Psagot on Thursday marked the first time a top American diplomat has visited a settlement in the West Bank, considered illegal under international law. For any other Secretary of State, this move...
While Coronavirus Cases Surge, Milwaukee Area Hospitals Are Holding Steady, Muslim Doctors Report
NBC News The grim statistics continue to pile up. The Trump administration’s lackluster and sporadic response to the coronavirus crisis has resulted in a third wave of Covid-19 cases in the U.S. As of last Sunday, 11 million people had tested...
Moving past inshallah: What Muslims want to see in a Biden presidency
Omar Suleiman to Religion News Service (RNS) — For the last 20 years, American Muslims have been on a cruel roller coaster ride with presidential candidates and the two major political parties in general. In the 2000 presidential...
