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...
When American troops withdrew from Afghanistan last August, the troubled nation descended into greater chaos. Families fled the country as it quickly fell to the Taliban. Some of the youngest refugees arrived in West Michigan where a search is underway to find them foster homes. Afghan refugee children, ranging in age from pre-teens to 17,...
The Islamic Center of Santa Clarita in California hosted an education and job workshop Saturday aimed at helping Afghan refugees who are recent arrivals in the city. Earlier this week, more than 130 refugees from Afghanistan, including men, women and young children were temporarily placed in Santa Clarita after a rushed evacuation. The total n...
Security camera footage at Al-Noor Islamic Community Center in the Canadian city of Waterloo showed a woman on December 28 picking up some snow and drawing crosses on every window she was able to reach. After doing this twice, her messages became hate-fueled attacks on Muslims written with an oily substance that mosque officials have […...
