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Two Muslim Democrat women, Ghazala Hashmi and Abrar Omeish made history by winning State Senator and a Fairfax County School Board in Virginia respectively as November 5 election proved to be a significant success for immigrant...

Journey into America, a documentary film about Islam in America by Akbar Ahmed, the former High Commissioner from Pakistan to the United Kingdom and Ireland and the current Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American...

Joining her Congressional colleagues in condemning India’s continued repression in Jammu and Kashmir, Representative Rashida Tlaib has said the United States should supported a UN-backed resolution to the longstanding conflict in a way that helps that...

Senator Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential contender, has lambasted the Indian move to annex Jammu and Kashmir as “unacceptable” and called for U.S. support for a UN-backed peaceful resolution to the simmering conflict. “I am also...

It is not easy to say, Eid Mubarak – while witnessing senseless gun violence, and mindless killing of fellow Americans and fellow humans across the world from Kashmir in South Asia to the killing fields in...

In the rooftop bar of Eaton DC, skeptical of attending a religious event, I didn’t know what to expect. When Nafisa Isa enthusiastically started introducing the program, people cheered and hollered. Sitting in the second row,...

A few years ago, when American University Professor Dr. Akbar Ahmed and Smithsonian Director Manjula Kumar picked me for the role of a Sufi Sheikh in the famous play Noor, I savored the experience as a...

Maryland’s leaders from both parties applauded Montgomery County Muslim Foundation for its continued work in service of humanity as they joined more than 500 community representatives in celebrations marking the annual Iftar dinner. Headed by Pakistani-American...

American Muslims attended large congregations of Eid ul Fitr prayers to celebrate the culmination of the month of Ramazan but some South Asian communities will mark the occasion on Wednesday. In New York and Washington metro...

The trigger for producer Noor Naghmi’s newest film was not just the post-9/11 anti-Muslim environment in the United States or even inflammatory 2016 election campaign rhetoric, but the stark distortion and lack of representation of America’s...