Girls Dabke takes root in Milwaukee
Photos by Elhadi MohamedBanat Al-Huriyah Girls Dabke Group debuted in June at Celebrating Palestine, the first Palestinian cultural festival in Milwaukee.Attend any wedding for a bride and groom with family roots in the Levant—Lebanon, Syria, Jordan,...
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....
Renowned scholar Dr. Marwa Shalaby joins the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Photo © Marwa Shalaby speaking at Brown University Political scientist pioneered groundbreaking research on Arab parliaments Marwa Shalaby ranked second among all the students graduating from Cairo’s famous Al-Azhar University in 2000. Earning a degree...
Less Muslim doctors drawn to US under Trump
The Arab Weekly AFP The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the US to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administration, exacerbating shortages in America’s physician workforce, a study said...
U.S. says foreign students may have to leave if their school goes online-only
Sahil Kapur for NBC News Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg via Getty Images file The government announced Monday that international students will not be allowed to stay in the country if the institution in which they're enrolled is holding online-only courses this...
Islamophobia: It’s worse than you think!
Political science scholar explores the status of Muslim Americans in American democracy “At 14 years old, I learned that membership in the United States is not permanent,” Nazita Lajevardi, Ph.D., J.D., wrote in Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American...
