Greta Thunberg Sets Sail for Gaza as Public Incitement Against Her Intensifies
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist who has become a global figure for climate justice, is taking her advocacy to new waters—literally. Thunberg, 22, has boarded a ship bound for Gaza in an attempt to breach Israel’s long-standing naval...
Daughters of Jamal Khashoggi recall a loving father and patriot
Writing for the Washington Post, the daughters of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi declared: “This is no eulogy, for that would confer a state of closure.” Khashoggi, 59, a Saudi national and US resident who wrote for the Post, was last seen...
Bara Omari: Challenging stereotypes by breaking barriers and empowering girls with knowledge
This interview is part of an ongoing editorial series. Each segment highlights a woman in the Wisconsin community. The stories are intended to share personal struggles, public achievements, and the social complexities with their Muslim identity....
Coding as a tool to empower a new generation of Gaza’s Palestinian youth
When Yasmin Helles was an English literature student at a Gaza college, she would spend most of her time online looking for information that could help her in academic life. She always wondered who designed these websites, making all this information...
Syrian refugees volunteer as tour guides at historic museum
Leaning in closely over a brass sphere the size of a clenched fist, Hussein Kara Ahmed explains to his audience the mechanical workings of the world's only complete surviving spherical astrolabe, created by a 15th-century Islamic craftsman named Musa. A...
Kerry Jude: Connecting students and cultural experiences
Over three decades ago, Greenheart Exchange, formerly known as Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI) began sending high school students to the United States from Spain. Today, the nonprofit organization works with over 60 different countries around the...
Education program invests in the future through exchanges of international youth
Beginning in 1985, Greenheart Exchange now sponsors an average of one thousand students annually who live with American families and study in high schools all across America. A handful of participants come to the Wisconsin for their overseas experience....
Rufus King students share message of hope in response to Baraboo’s racist photo
If a photo of students doing a Nazi salute can spread around the country, maybe a photo of students showing the American sign language symbol for “I love you,” could have just as much influence. At least that was the hope of students at Rufus King...
G. Willow Wilson: Diversity means being a good person of faith and a good human being
One of the most exciting comic books on the shelves right now has a very unusual hero at its center: Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Muslim and Pakistani-American who discovers she has incredible shape-shifting abilities and who struggles with her identity on...
IRC Book Review: Ms. Marvel series
Elise Bellin, MLIS is the IRC Librarian and this book review is part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. Ms. Marvel, a MARVEL comic series by G. Willow Wilson, © 2014 – ISBN:...
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