The Wood Wide Web: Signs Beneath Our Feet
There are forests that seem quiet.You walk through them and hear only the wind brushing against leaves, the soft crack of twigs beneath your feet, and perhaps the distant call of a bird. Everything appears still, separate, and independent.But beneath that...
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
Switching to big tech alternatives is easier than you might imagine. Illustration: Jake Hawkins/The Guardian here’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining...
My First Ramadan As A Convert: The Lengths Small Acts of Kindness Can Go
I embraced Islam at the end of August 2000, over twenty-five years ago. Ramadan arrived just three months later, beginning in late November and stretching into late December. It was the year Ramadan coincided with the heart of the American holiday season....
Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center honors Black Muslim families
Members of the Abdi family gather for a photo at the Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center's "Honoring the Black Muslim Family's Legacy" event. Pictured here are (back row) Sahra Ali; Ubah Abdi; Abdirahman, Selwa and Kadija Abdi; Suhayb Osman; Umalkhayr, Asma and...
Marquette University’s new Muslim chaplain has two missions
Photo courtesy of Marquette UniversityFatih Harpci, Ph.D., joined Marquette University's Campus Ministry last summer as MU's Muslim chaplain. As students in Marquette University’s Arabic Language and Culture Club set up calligraphy and henna stations, an...
What can I do in the face of genocide?
Credit: Artist Zahra Gulraiz created this image in honor of US Air Force Aaron Bushnell who self-emulated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC two years ago today in protest of his country’s complicity in genocide.I find myself asking this...
Ramadan around the world – in pictures
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, featuring celebrations, prayers, pre-dawn breakfasts and post-sundown meals, began at sunrise in the Middle East and a day later in much of Asia. In the Muslim lunar calendar, months begin only when the new moon is...
Observing Laylat al-Qadr, Ramadan’s holiest night
Photo by Yaseen Najeeb Islamic Society of Milwaukee Religious Chair Waleed Najeeb, M.D., leads the planning of the ISM-Main's observance of Laylat al-Qadr, a dusk-to-dawn prayer and worship program. Longtime Milwaukee Muslim community member Sameer Ewis,...
How Ottoman culinary traditions continue to shape Ramadan meals across South Asia
As the call to prayer softens the edges of dusk, kitchens across South Asia begin their quiet transformation. Dough rises beneath muslin cloths, milk simmers into silk, and dates are deseeded, split open with care. Hundreds of miles away, in the shadow of...
Near-blind Rohingya refugee dies after US agents left him far from home
An undated photograph of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, provided by his family [File/Handout : Nurul Amin Shah Alam's family via Reuters]A nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, days after the United States Border...
