Milwaukee’s Blue Star Café: A tiny Somali café with a big reputation
Photos by Cherrie Hanson (Left to right) Alia Muhyadin and Abdirizak Aden opened Blue Star Café in 2012 and have nurtured it into one of Milwaukee's best-loved family restaurants.Food critics call Blue Star Café, at 1619 N. Farwell, “a hidden gem,” “under...
Filmmakers Condemn Israeli Films at Venice Festival: ‘No Artwashing Genocide’
Around 300 filmmakers, including Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, have voiced their objection to the Venice Film Festival's decision to screen two Israeli films. In an open letter, the group criticized the festival's choice, highlighting growing...
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...
