UN Launches 2027 Secretary-General Selection, Highlighting Historic Push for Female Leadership
The United Nations has formally begun the process of selecting its next Secretary General, inviting all 193 member states to submit nominations to replace Antonio Guterres when his second term ends on December 31, 2026.A joint letter from General Assembly...
Twenty-three years after 9/11, Muslim victims of US violence deserve justice
Palestinian women attend a rally against the visit of the US president to Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2022 (Said Khatib/AFP)On 31 July, three Guantanamo defendants, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin' Attash, and Mustafa...
MMWC Networking Brunch: Jewish solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation
Photo by Mouna RashidCo-founder of JVP Milwaukee and co-chair of Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine, Rachel Ida Buff, Ph.D., (center) at a press conference in April, following an armed vandalism of a Gaza memorial on Marquette University's...
Former Jewish Voice for Peace leaders reflect on the lessons of anti-Zionist organizing
Over 300 Jewish New Yorkers were arrested at Grand Central calling for a ceasefire in the largest civil disobedience NYC has seen in 20 years. (Photo: Jewish Voice for Peace) Over the last ten months we’ve seen Jewish activists and political groups...
Coming Home To Malaysia: Reflections And Advice On Moving To A Muslim-Majority Country
As someone whose ancestral home is Malaysia, I have had the blessing of living here for a decade. There’s something very special and healing about returning here because I felt very fragmented and disconnected from my cultural and spiritual heritage after...
Global Muslim wedding traditions “Groom Style”
Photos courtesy of Ali Yusuf Ali Yusuf (center) on the day of his nikkah with witnesses (back row) sheikh Zakaria, imam Ziad Hamdan, Br. Will Perry, Michael Pikuleff (grandfather), Charles Eigen (grandfather) and Jonas Wittke (cousin). Islamic weddings...
Pope Francis and Indonesia imam call for unity against religious violence
Pope Francis and Nasaruddin Umar, the grand imam of Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, have signed a joint declaration calling for interfaith friendship, taking a stand against religious violence and urging unified action to protect the planet.The 87-year-old...
The Muslim American: Forging Faith and Action
I can speak for the generation that grew up in the 80s and 90s, whose parents were immigrants from the East. Most of us went to public schools while our parents settled down, got us educated, and often scrambled to convince us of our Islamic identity,...
Celebrating an amazing first year at the Islamic Resource Center Library
Photos by Cherrie Hanson Islamic Resource Center librarian Jenny Wegener loves books! In her first year she added over 300 books to the catalog. A year has gone by since librarian Jenny Wegener was hired to manage the Islamic Resource Center (IRC) library...
Addressing Global Wealth Inequality: Insights from Nahjul Balagha
The recent Oxfam report reveals a staggering increase of $42 trillion in wealth among the richest 1% over the past decade, while taxes on them have reached historic lows. The widening wealth gap between the rich and the rest of the population leads to...
