PBA 2025: Longlist announced in a landmark year for Palestinian voices
We are honoured to announce the 20 longlisted titles for the Palestine Book Awards 2025. This year marks a horrifying time for the people of Palestine — a year scarred by ongoing war and genocide.Yet, in the face of unimaginable suffering, Palestinian...
A Women’s Day message about being unapologetically a woman and a Muslim
“Women Against Hate United By Love” hosted a special community exhibition and rally on International Women’s Day at Milwaukee’s City Hall. The March 8 event featured a unique and powerful traveling exhibition, that uses art as a platform for gathering...
Tahereh Mafi’s next YA Novel “A Very Large Expanse of Sea” is about a Muslim American teen after 9/11
HarperCollins Publishers recently announced the acquisition of New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi's new stand-alone young adult novel, “A Very Large Expanse of Sea,” set for publication on October 16, 2018. A Very Large Expanse of Sea is a...
Technology from Milwaukee’s Johnson Controls keeps visitors cool at Mecca
Johnson Controls was awarded the contract in 2010 to provide a building management system (HVAC) for the expansion of Makkah’s Holy Mosque in Saudi Arabia, and has kept it temperature controlled for the millions of annual pilgrims. It took multiple...
Muslims and Evangelicals hold second gathering to break down barriers and build trust
Brew City Church hosted a second…
IRC Book Review: Beyond Jihad
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. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam by Lamin Sanneh,...
The Muslims who shaped America
What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think that the answer was not much, apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican president made every effort to halt...
Tahera Rahman: First Muslim television reporter in America to wear a hijab
Tahera Rahman made history recently when she became the first Muslim hijab-wearing woman to present a video news report on American television. After years of internships at the station, and working as a behind-the-camera producer at WHBF-TV for two years,...
Poll shows Muslim voters overwhelmingly support universal background checks for gun sales
Survey respondents said public officials would have responded differently to Florida school shooting had the perpetrator been Muslim. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,...
Prashant Waikar: What the news media misunderstands when reporting about Islam
Prashant Waikar Originally published on JuanCole.com as What Journalists get wrong about Islam An article published in Forbes on January 2 elucidates the fundamental problems with news coverage of issues concerning Islam and Muslims. That...
