Ashura – Lest We Forget
An aerial view shows people gathering at the shrines of Imam Abbas ibn Ali (front) and Imam Husain (background) in the city of Karbala, 88 kilometers south of the capital Baghdad, Iraq (photo: AFP).The tenth day of the first month of the Islamic lunar...
Community partnership fulfills hometown dream for Zeshan B with Marcus Center concert
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition partnered together on September 15 for the first time to host a cultural entertainment special with the American-born Indian singer and songwriter, Zeshan B....
IRC Book Review: Zeitoun
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. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, © 2009 ISBN: 9781934781630 For those of you that are...
SAFLI students from UW-Madison experience a day of language and cultural immersion
For the fourth summer now, students from the South Asia Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI) program through the University of Wisconsin-Madison visited the Islamic Resource Center for a local cultural immersion experience. The special initiative of the...
Maryam Al-Khawaja talks about survivor’s guilt in Marquette democracy project
Maryam Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini Human Rights Defender, works as an Advisor on Advocacy with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), and is on the Board of the International Service for Human Rights. She previously served as the Co-Director for the GCHR...
Mark Pocan among U.S. Representatives who condemn Trump’s actions against Palestinians
U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Barbara Lee (CA-13), Betty McCollum (MN-04), Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) today released the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s recent actions...
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflects on life affirming lessons in “Becoming Kareem”
Based on his NYTimes best-selling book, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in Milwaukee on September 7 for his live on-stage show at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts - Uihlein Hall, and the Wisconsin Muslim Journal caught up with him on the red carpet....
Political Science class on terrorism prompts backlash from UW-Madison students over racism
Originally published by Parker Schorr as Terrorism class syllabus prompts critiques of bias, racism in UW political science department on The Badger Herald UW student Ali Khan's critique of class on Facebook quickly tallied hundreds of likes, comments, and...
Zeshan B’s concert to share his new genre of music with Milwaukee
Virtuoso vocalist Zeshan B is widely being recognized as one of the most unique singers to come out of Chicago. He will be at the Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall for one night only on Saturday, September 15 at 7:30 pm. Blending the...
Fact checking reveals Wisconsin’s Ripon College was targeted by false claims over 9/11 memorial
“Unfortunately, we have a history of marginalizing minority groups in our country and creating the ‘other,’ including the original Native Americans, black Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and now Latinx and Muslims among others. However,...
