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...
How Columbia University’s complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
Mark Rudd, a leader of the student protest at Columbia University in New Your City, is interviewed outside Low Memorial Library, background, April 25, 1968, which has been occupied by students since the previous day. Rudd said that the purpose of the...
The second life of Walid Daqqah
WALID DAQQAH (RIGHT), HIS DAUGHTER MILAD (CENTER), AND HIS WIFE SANA’ (LEFT). (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FREE WALID DAQQAH CAMPAIGN)When he was diagnosed with Myelofibrosis in 2022, Walid Daqqah knew that his life had entered its final years. ًWhat few could...
Muslim American Society-Milwaukee’s 14th Annual Convention this weekend
Muslim American Society-Milwaukee's annual convention attracts about 1,000 attendees from across Wisconsin. Participants also come from Illinois and Michigan to hear national speakers. Returning for the first time since the pandemic, the Muslim American...
Talking Points And Thinking Points About The Free Palestine Movement
Assalamu Alaikum.A historic moment in the lives of Muslim Americans has arrived.Young Muslims, with their Jewish and other allies, are rising up in an unprecedented way across American campuses. They are striving for freedom and justice for Palestine. We...
The Freedom Flotilla Is Sailing Into Its Most Dangerous Waters Yet
Bread is carried on board as workers prepare a ship from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition while it anchors in the Tuzla seaport, in Istanbul on April 19, 2024. (Yasin Akgul / AFP via Getty Images)The voyage of the Free Gaza Movement began in 2008 when two...
Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine calls for media coverage of armed vandalism of Palestinian memorial at Marquette University
Photo by Mouna Rashid Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine co-chairs Janan Najeeb (left) and Rachel Ida Buff (right), with MU Students for Justice in Palestine vice president Zena Khatib (center), speak at press conference to bring attention to...
The media is advancing a false narrative of ‘rising antisemitism’ on campus by ignoring Jewish protesters
What is the mainstream U.S. media’s greatest single distortion about the protests at Columbia University and elsewhere? Here’s the winner so far: the media is ignoring the fact that Jewish students are participating in the pro-Palestinian protests, and...
Long live the student resistance
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT ORGANIZERS SET UP THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT ON APRIL 17, 2024. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA) Priscilla Yuen, Associate Director of Doctoral Affairs at Columbia Engineering, stands with papers flapping in hand, large sunglasses...
Milwaukee physician honoring the practice of ‘Namat Khana’ on Stop Food Waste Day
Food waste is a serious global issue being brought to light by Stop Food Waste Day. Once used a device to keep precious food from going to waste, a namat khana has become a phrase that nods at the respect and reverence for food. In the U.S. and around the...
