Utilizing Higher Education and Political Prowess to Inspire an Ideological Shift
The Muslim American community is at a generational turning point, one that calls not for cautious optimism or slow, negotiated progress, but for decisive and unapologetic agenda-setting. For too long, we have been trained to believe that our victories lie...
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:...
Airbnb to remove rental listings from illegitimate settlements in the West Bank
The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights recently reported that after years of controversy, Airbnb will remove all home-sharing lists - roughly 200 - in illegal Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. According to a blog...
Adnan Bin-Mahfouz: Speaking the Universal Language of Food
Manifesting the belief that food is the best way to start any conversation, Adnan Bin-Mahfouz walked away from his business development career to become a chef and private business owner. His new work uses food to breakdown language barriers by bridging...
A Legacy in Stone: Photos from Syria before War
“Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War” is a collection of 100 black-and-white photographs immortalizing the ancient monuments of Syria. Kevin Bubriski was on assignment in Syria in 2003, during the infancy of the U.S. war in neighboring Iraq. He was...
Students seek day off for 2021 Muslim holiday
Students in North Carolina's largest public school district may get the day off for one of Islam's most important holidays in 2021. Local media reports a Wake County calendar committee decided recently to make Eid al-Fitr a teacher work day during the...
