Archewell Foundation Cuts Funding to Muslim Women’s Group Over Pro-Palestine Remarks
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation has halted its financial support to a prominent U.S.-based Muslim women’s organization after pro-Palestinian statements made by its founder, Janan Najeeb, came to light—igniting debate around the limits...
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...
Hajj 2020: Wisconsin Muslims share stories of the Hajj that almost was
Albana and Mohammed Zagloul on Hajj in 2019 In early March, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia cancelled Umraa, the optional pilgrimage for Muslims that can be made at any time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Travel restrictions prevented anyone from...
IRC Book Review: Lubna and Pebble
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. Lubna and Pebble Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour,...
As students, they never had Somali teachers. Now they’re Minnesota’s first Somali public school principals.
Abdirizak Abdi, left, and Akram Osman, right, became Minnesota’s first Somali principals on July 1. Becky Z. Dernbach for Sahan Journal Jaida Grey Eagle for Sahan Journal Abdirizak Abdi’s parents never received a formal education growing up in Somalia....
