What Is Your Mission In Life?
Once Khalifa Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, noticed a bird on a tree. He sighed deeply saying “O, bird! How lucky you are! You sit on the tree, you eat from the fruit, then fly away, you fear no accountability or punishment. I wish I was like...
IRC Book Review: Exit West
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. Exit West Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2017) ISBN:...
Disney announces plans for a short film on Eid
Diyana Hakmi for Emirates Woman Pexels/Emirates Woman A new short film surrounding a family based in the USA who celebrate Eid is in the works. Titled American Eid, the film is set to be released on the Walt Disney streaming platform...
Area Families Prepare Delicious Iftar Meals During Ramadan 2020
Josiah Roell with sons Ayyub and Adam After a long spring day of fasting during Ramadan, Wisconsin Muslims adhere to a carefully prescribed ritual for breaking their fast before iftar. “The prophetic way of breaking the fast is with dates and water,” said...
Muslim Doctors Fight COVID-19 And Islamophobia On The Front Lines
Rowaida Abdelaziz for Huffpost Hilary Swift for Huffpost Syed Raheel Hassan, a doctor in New Jersey, sees nearly twice the number of patients he did before the coronavirus pandemic hit the state. Hassan’s days are packed as he moves from room to room at...
Oral history project preserves stories of black Muslim seniors amid pandemic
Aysha Khan for RNS RNS/Pixabay As the coronavirus outbreak takes a disproportionately deadly toll on seniors and African Americans, a new oral history initiative aims to train black Muslim youth to document their elderly community members’ stories....
2020 Census Again Fails to Include Middle Eastern and North African Descent
By now, the 2020 census should have been a done deal. The decennial (every ten years) accounting of every person living in the United States, citizen or non-citizen, was supposed to be completed by the end of April. Heads of households were encouraged to...
7 OF THE BEST AUDIOBOOKS BY MUSLIM WOMEN WRITERS
Kendra Winchester for Book Riot Book Riot A PLACE FOR US BY FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA, NARRATED BY DEEPTI GUPTA, SUNIL MALHOTRA A Place for Us is, perhaps, most well-known for being the first book published under Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, but...
Why Ramadan could be critical for our global economic recovery
Azim Kidwai for abc.net There is consensus that the global economy is facing a recession, if not a depression, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many parts of the world may be protected from the worst of this by the billions in increased consumer...
Local Rohingya Refugees Struggle During Coronavirus Ramadan
The roughly 800 Rohingya families currently living in Wisconsin have lives that other Burmese refugees can only dream about. More than 850,000 Rohingya are crowded together in the world’s largest refugee camp, located in the Cox’s Bazar region of...
