By Fatima ZaidiYusra Mardini is our honoree for Muslim Women to Watch 2023, Muslim Girl’s annual list of the prolific Muslim women making our year. Yusra Mardini’s story begins in Damascus, Syria, where she spent her life training, and practicing to become a competitive swimmer. Her journey into athleticism began when she represented Syria during the 2012…
By Salma ElkhaoudiMohammad JD, a native Chicagoan and current graduate student in San Francisco, is on a mission to call the world’s attention to the Syrian refugee crisis. “No Place Like Hope,” is the title of this mini-documentary, a product of Mohammad’s time spent teaching and helping with medical attention in Northern Greece’s refugee camps. It was written and…
By Guest BloggerAfter five long years in the struggle for civility in Syria, the temporary cease-fire was a welcomed sigh of relief…that is until a refugee camp was blown to bits the very next day. The United States and Russia assured that they would investigate to determine who killed 28 and injured 50 more civilian refugees who…
