Israel: Beginning of the End
Israeli protest in Tel Aviv calling for an agreement to release Israelis held captive or hostage, Sept. 1, 2024. (Nizzan Cohen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)Contrary to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bellicose July 24 speech before a joint session of...
IRC Book Review: The Study Quran: A New Translation And Commentary
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. The Study Quran: A New Translation And Commentary The...
Coronavirus: 150 Tunisians self-isolate in factory to make masks
By Rana Jawad for BBC News BBC News Employees at a Tunisian factory are churning out 50,000 face masks a day and other protective medical gear after opting to go into lockdown at work. The 150 workers, mainly women, have isolated themselves at the Consomed...
Amid Corona Crisis ‘Our Peaceful Home’ Offers Solutions
Advocates for victims of domestic abuse are not waiting for the numbers to tell a sad story. They are sounding the alarm that corona virus “shelter at home” orders pose particular challenges for already stressed families. Our Peaceful Home (OPH), the first...
Don’t Underestimate The Power Of The Muslim Woman
USOW Ambassador Voice for Forbes Muslim Women’s Day is a day to bring awareness to the unique identities in the Muslim women community. It is also a day to highlight the incredible strides Muslim women are making around the world. One in 10 global citizens...
How You Can Protect Your Community, Not Just Your Own Health
Oeindrila Dube and Katherine Baicker for NY Times The drastic changes in economic and social behavior needed to stop the coronavirus require active community engagement, two economists say. Here are lessons from the Ebola epidemic. Stemming the spread of...
Saleem’s Olympic Hopes Not Dashed by Corona Virus
Yahoo Sports With only a day remaining before Governor Evers’ “safer at home” order goes into effect, Ziyad Saleem, 17, a junior at King High School in Milwaukee, is grabbing what may be his last chance to swim training laps. At Walter Schroeder Aquatic...
IRC Book Review: I Wonder About Allah
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. I Wonder About Allah I Wonder About Allah by Ozkan Oze,...
Governor Ever’s Safer At Home Order Begins
WTMJ evers.wi.gov Gov. Tony Evers today directed Department of Health Services (DHS) Secretary-designee Andrea Palm to issue a Safer at Home order that prohibits all nonessential travel, with some exceptions as clarified and defined in the order. The order...
UW-Madison Muslim Sorority Shelters in Place
Sisterhood is powerful on the UW-Madison campus, and Alpha Lambda Rho, Madison’s first student organization for Muslim women, will no doubt survive the cancellation of classes, which also means the cancellation of many of its spring events. Like most...
