By MG StaffOn Friday, two brothers stabbed a Brooklyn man at 2:30 P.M. in the stomach for speaking in Arabic — in the very same city that over thousands of immigrants traveled to from across the globe in hopes of gaining the opportunity to chase their dreams. But now, two centuries later, one of the biggest melting…
By Nihal Al QawasmiIt’s not out of the ordinary for me to be baffled or enraged at news headlines that make their way across my various social media platforms. However, this particular story basically made $#!T hit the fan in my brain. The Times of Israel published “When the Kuffiya Turned Couture” and highlighted designer Yaron Minkowski and his…
By Tahira AyubIn our daily lives today, where we are so connected to one other through social media and breaking news on the media, that it’s easy to be updated on the day to day happenings all around the globe. While there are positive things occurring constantly, most often we hear about the negative – the wars,…
By The EditorsYuna Zarai is coming to Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) – TONIGHT! Yuna, a Muslim singer/guitarist who made her recorded debut in Malaysia in 2008, will be visiting and performing at one of New Jersey’s top public universities and the home of MuslimGirl. Nominated as one of MTV Iggy’s Best New Bands in the World…
By Guest BloggerNSYNC lyrics apply to everything, even in Canada. Canada’s recently-turned-Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s number one goal this election season was to make Canadians overlook his many, many failures in the last 10 years spent in office. Harper and his team tried to use the distraction method to win elections this year, and their distraction of…
By Guest BloggerComing out of London this week, is some classic and very explicit English prejudice. Allow me to set the scene. We’re on a crowded bus going through town, there’s a pregnant Muslim woman, there’s a belligerent non-Muslim woman — action! In other iterations, the video varies in length but the message is unchanging. An unidentified woman…
By Hasnaa MokhtarI was living in Montreal, Canada in 2010 and attending a French class to improve my language skills. I remember the lively and diverse group of students I studied and conversed with. I also remember the hot days of that summer and the challenge of having to wear my headscarf and modest clothing in high…
By Guest BloggerHere in Canada, we are home to the Maple leaf. When fall comes around, this prominent leaf starts to gradually change its colors. It goes from its natural colors to a bright yellow, to a warm orange and then to a fierce red. It’s almost as if all the trees are on fire. It takes…
By HalimahA coalition of Black and pro-Palestine organizations collaborated to produce a poignant and profound video to promote trans-organizational solidarity between two communities that know, and too often, experience institutionalized oppression within the mold of their respective and varied histories. The video, titled “When I See Them I See Us,” features many prominent Black and Palestinian figures…
By Sahra MaganThe longstanding practice of ritualized sexual violence against young boys — bacha bazi (literally, “boy play”) — was slowly reinstated after the fall of the Taliban, which had taken a hardline stance against the practice by banning it in the parts of the country that they controlled. The practice has been long condemned by human…
By Guest BloggerRecently an uncle visiting from overseas stayed with us for a few days. He was a pleasant and amiable man, keen to take in the sights and always up for a good yarn. On one such occasion, as he sat with me chatting over tea, he impressed me with his nonchalant comments about how his…
By Guest BloggerWe all remember the incredible photos from Solange Knowles’s wedding – from the way the squad posed to how bold and beautiful each woman looked, we were all in awe. Well, something incredible happened at Yale University’s annual Eid Banquet this year: the fierce group of women in the Muslim Student Association came together and…
By Sahra MaganThe casualties of the twin bombing attack on protesters at a peace rally in the Turkish capital, Ankara, have been estimated at 95 dead, with hundreds more injured. The attack on a peace demonstration urging for an end to the conflict between Kurdish separatist groups and the Turkish government has further escalated tensions within Turkey….
By Shannon“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This happy little ditty is what my grade school teacher used to help us remember the year that Christopher Columbus discovered the United States of America. It wasn’t until I got to college and took a class in Latin American history that I learned a different, more accurate…
By Tahira AyubA lot of the time, we kind of hate running around places. Whether it’s running across campus from one class to another, running that mile in gym class, or running up the stairs 12 times every morning because we keep forgetting the same folder on the dresser — running can be really inconvenient in our…
