When is Eid al-Fitr 2024 and how is it celebrated?
As a new moon was not sighted on Monday evening after Maghrib prayers, Muslims in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries will fast one more day, completing 30 days of Ramadan. The first day of Eid will then be celebrated on Wednesday, April 10. The first...
Notable Contemporary Latino Muslims You Should Know
When we think of Islamic cultural legacies, we often reflect on Islam’s Golden Age during the 8th to 13th centuries, Islamic Spain, the Mali Empire, and later the accomplishments of the great Ottoman sultans. Marvels like the Spanish Alhambra in Granada,...
MMWC Mental Health Conference explores the cure for U.S. epidemic of loneliness
Photo by Ted Erski In spite of an increasingly digitally connected world, Americans report being lonelier than ever. “Loneliness is now an epidemic in the United States” and it has terrible consequences, said Duaa Haggag, M.A., L.P.C., a community educator...
Neurology & Qur’an Speak About Smartest Bird on Earth
The hoopoe bird is considered the smartest bird on earth. Neurology research shows that the hoopoe bird has a highly developed brain. Birds are not generally perceived to be smart animals; in fact, it’s demeaning to call someone “bird-brained”. But one...
Eliminating Bias: Honoring the Unique Needs of Every Student
Educators encounter students daily from a diverse range of ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, academic abilities, learning styles, and socioeconomic situations. From the very first day of school, teachers often make initial observations of their students...
Photo essay: Neighborly hospitality for Doors Open Milwaukee at the Islamic Resource Center
During a tour on the first day of Doors Open, Cherrie Hanson (second from the left) MMWC special projects manager, walks visitors through the hallway of the Islamic Resource Center.The Islamic Resource Center (IRC) joined 133 other locations in Milwaukee...
Palestinian Americans are now tourists in their own land
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, visits the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Abbas’s visit — his first trip to the camp since 2005 — comes a week after a deadly Israeli offensive on Jenin that left widespread...
Finally, the largest Muslim population in the nation has an Arab American mayor. And he has big plans.
Dearborn, Mich., is home to the largest Muslim population per capita in the nation. Yet it didn’t elect its first Muslim mayor until 2022 with the victory of Abdullah Hammoud, a 33-year-old who has big plans for his hometown.Hammoud, a former member of the...
Milwaukee Muslims join with Libyan Americans to support victims of disastrous Derna flood
Photo by Karim Sahib of AFP Rescue teams assist in relief work in Libya's eastern city of Derna after deadly Storm Daniel. Esayed Elbahbah spoke over the phone Sept. 10 with his sister Asha, who lived in Derna, Libya, where they had both grown up. A storm...
US Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad: I showed what Muslim women can do in sport
Ibtihaj Muhammad represented Team USA at the Rio 2016 Olympics (AFP/Getty)Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad made history in 2016 by being the first US-team member to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab.It was a year that saw rising anti-Muslim sentiment in the...