A 19th-century Islamic seminary in the state of Uttar Pradesh faces uncertainty about its future. This is after the Indian government’s recent establishment of an anti-terror police squad near it. The move came as an unpleasant surprise for several residents and has triggered anxiety among many Muslims. The Darul Uloom seminary campus is tuck...
Afghan artist Aziz Hazara collected 20 tons of garbage from Bagram air base, formerly the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan. He then sent the shipment to the United States as his “gift to the American people.” Its purpose is to retrace the “supply chain of the global war on terror” through international ports and […]
Prominent Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah was detained by the Indian army on Friday, under terrorism and sedition laws in Indian-held Kashmir. Shah is the founder and editor of the widely read local news website The Kashmir Walla. The 33-year-old has reported about Kashmir for several international publications, including the UK-based Guardian ...
When 33-year-old Syrian native Ahmad won the diversity lottery and a chance to get a visa to the United States in May 2018, he was in disbelief. It was his third attempt applying for the Diversity Visa Program, which gives up to 50,000 people a chance to apply for a U.S. green card every year. […]
Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Istanbul as human rights organizations gathered outside the Greek consulate. They carried signs and banners, and chanted slogans. Representatives of human rights groups criticized Greece’s refugee policy. Kenan Alpay, Deputy Chairman of the humanitarian group Ozgur-Der, said they gathered to protest th...
An award-winning Muslim Arts and Culture International Festival, MACFEST, returns to Manchester this February. The festival, which started Saturday, offers more than 75 events celebrating the cultural heritage of Muslim communities. It will include talk panels, art exhibitions, and numerous workshops covering the topics of Muslim literature, a...
Weary of the civil war at home, a Yemeni family attempted to cross into Europe through Greece to a tragic end. But one family member was lost at sea after Greek coast guard units threw him into the Mediterranean Sea. The family — husband and wife, Mahgdi Kalla and Fatima Mahmud, along with their cousin, […]
Britain’s largest Muslim group on Thursday called on everyone involved in the Beijing Winter Olympics to raise awareness about the plight of the Uyghur people. About three million Uyghurs have been forcibly detained at internment camps and subjected to torture, rape, mass sterilization, and forced labour, the Muslim Council of Britain said. Th...
Like most teen novels, Muslim young adult fiction is bursting with hormones, love interests, family drama, friendships and fallouts typical of high school life. The only difference is the main characters are all Muslim, as are the authors of their stories. Muslim young adult fiction was once relegated to relatively unknown indie printing pre...
More than 80 Muslim organizations, including civil and human rights groups, mosques and charities, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice. They are calling for an investigation into whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal laws by spying on several Muslim organizations in the U.S. Those organizations include the Council on A...
