Stories of Strength: Women’s History Month featured at the Islamic Resource Center library
March is Women's History Month. The 2026 theme, selected and published by the National Women’s History Alliance is Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first proclamation designating the week of...
“New Dawn” in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests
We go to Dhaka for an update as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is sworn in to lead Bangladesh’s caretaker government just days after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled the country amid a wave of student-led...
Ruling Challenges Media Stance on Palestine
Members of the International Court of Justice on July 19, the day they delivered their opinion on the illegality of the Israeli occupation. (ICJ)Major international media faces a dilemma over whether to adapt its reporting to the World...
Milwaukee gallerist Nadia Alkhun recognizes how art is embedded in everything
Photo by Ahmed Obeidat, M.D. Re-established in Greenfield, gallery owner Nadia Alkhun seeks to bring the local community together through art exhibitions, workshops, and community events. Nadia Alkhun lives by the philosophy that not only is each and every...
Egyptian Fencer Nada Hafez’s Olympic Journey While Seven Months Pregnant
Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez made headlines at the 2024 Paris Olympics by competing in the women's saber event while seven months pregnant. At 26, Hafez reached the round of 16, achieving her best Olympic result after previously competing in Rio 2016 and...
The World Court has ended the Oslo ruse
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN (LEFT), U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON (CENTER), AND PLO CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT (RIGHT), DURING THE SIGNING OF THE OSLO ACCORDS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1993. (PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)Israel is on trial for genocide in the...
Discussing anti-Muslim violence with survivor Zara Chowdhary, Wisconsin author of The Lucky Ones
Wisconsin author Zara Chowdhary survived decades of anti-Muslim violence in her native India. Her new memoir, The Lucky Ones, intertwines her personal history with the social and political history of a fragile, multiethnic society.“A memoir for this...
Community Advisory: CAIR Urges Muslim Voters to Meet Lawmakers During August Congressional Recess
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Muslim voters and community leaders to meet with lawmakers in their home districts during the August Congressional recess....
What are the teachings of Islam on Environmental Protection?
As grave climate change continues to ramp up, higher temperatures and heat waves are making the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Makkah in Saudi Arabia, increasingly risky, especially for participants with vulnerable health condition.In the Middle...
Milwaukee’s Salam School Girls Basketball players become graphic novel stars
Illustration by Safiya Zerrougui Salam School Girls Basketball Team, one of the first all-Muslim girls' high school teams in America, garnered national media attention in 2018-19, catching the attention of writer Hena Khan, who featured the Stars in her...
