In this time of heightened anti-Muslim sentiment, Marvel has introduced a new Muslim superhero – Ms. Marvel. The character is a Pakistani-American girl who discovers she has shape-shifting abilities and uses those powers to fight crime. This character adds diversity to the Marvel universe and is proving to be quite popular; comics and trade paperbacks about the character are selling well, indicating that there is widespread interest about the character. READ MORE (Arab American News) ...
Muslim and Jews Must Work Together to Fight Discrimination
School/Theater Partnership Tackles Important Themes
Students from Calgary Islamic School's Omar Bin Al-Khattab campus are uniting with Trickster Theatre, a local theater company, to tackle such crucial topics as Islamophobia, identity, stereotypes, and the history of Muslims in Canada. The partnership is a first for both the school and the theater company, but the results are a series of important performances that challenge pre-conceptions about Muslims and also helped the students develop new skills. READ MORE (CBC) ...
Documenting Muslim History in NYC
"Muslims in Brooklyn" is a new oral history project at the New York Historical Society that seeks to document the Muslim past and present in Brooklyn, New York. Launched last year, the project’s participants come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds – including African-American, Yemeni, Palestinian, Moroccan, Kashmiri, Bangladeshi, Tatar, Haitian and Puerto Rican – and from 18 different Brooklyn neighborhoods. They range from 24 to 74 years of age, from unobservant to conservative Muslim and ...
The Interfaith Dialogue Was Good, but the Food was Even Better
