Rutgers University Condemned for Canceling Palestinian Rights Advocate’s Graduation Speech
Students of Rutgers University set up Gaza solidarity encampment at a New Jersey university on the Rutgers-Newark campus in Newark, United States on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images) Faculty members at Rutgers University...
The mainstream media is ignoring Israel’s role in the killing of journalist Amal Khalil
Amal Khalil (Image: Democracy Now)Amal Khalil was a brave Lebanese reporter who for the past two decades has reported from the often dangerous southern part of her country for the Al-Akhbar daily newspaper. On April 22, while doing her job, she died in...
British Photographer Sets Out on a 90-Day Journey to Portray Muslim Life Across the US
A British Muslim photographer is embarking on a 90-day road trip across the United States to document what he calls “Muslim America.”Artist photographer Mahtab Hussain began the project in 2021, marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. His work has already...
Aleena Ahmed reflects on year as Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate
Aleena Ahmad (left), Milwaukee's second Youth Poet Laureate, and her mother, Sayema Khatun (right) attended Woodland Pattern's 32 Annual Poetry Marathon & Benefit in January at Saint Kate - the Arts Hotel in Milwaukee. The two-day, 24-hour marathon...
We Finally Heard “Habibi” — And It Meant We Belong
Ramy Youssef’s appearance on “Sesame Street” didn’t look like a major cultural moment at first. It was simple. He greeted Elmo with “Salamu Alaykum,” explained that it means peace, and shared the word “habibi,” meaning “special friend.” It was warm, easy,...
Locked Up by Israel at 15, Palestine Activist Is Now Jailed by ICE
Federal immigration agents transported Salah Sarsour hundreds of miles away from his family to a county jail in Indiana that contracts with ICE, where Sarsour remains incarcerated today as attorneys petition for his release. Free Salah Sarsour /...
Milwaukee Muslims launch Permaculture Book Club
Photo by Cherrie Hanson Masjid Al Quran hosts an Earth Day celebration Sunday, April 26, on its farm, with tree and flower planting, a water photo contest and lecture by ecologist Huda Alkaff of Wisconsin Green Muslims. A growing group of environmentally...
Rooted and Ready
Nasheed presentation from ICN Noor Academy studentsOn April 3 to 5, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) hosted its 27th Annual Education Forum in collaboration with WISER and CISNA, in Chicago. It welcomed about 450 educators, administrators,...
Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD
Rümeysa Öztürk in Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 May 2025. Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/ReutersRümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student who was targeted by the Trump administration last year in response to co-writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed, completed her...
Milwaukee Film Festival features “Traces of Home,” a Palestinian-Mexican American family’s journey
Photo by Rey TangColette Ghunim’s debut feature film, Traces of Home, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Documentary at DOC NYC, the premier competition for documentary film in the United States.Nine years ago, filmmaker Colette Ghunim decided to...
