The United Nations (UN) has declared education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai as “the most famous teenager in the world” in its Decade in Review. In part one of its review series, which takes into account events that happened between 2010 and the end of 2013, the UN highlighted the devastating Haiti earthquake in…
The founder and General Secretary of the West Bengal-based Al-Ameen Mission, M. Nurul Islam, was awarded the ‘Sir Syed Award’ by the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) in their 28th International Convention on Education and Gala Award programme held in Bhubaneswar recently. Amidst standing ovation, Mr. Islam received the award from the…
By QalamdarA soft-spoken, unassuming man with a glowing face who radiates love, peace and kindness: that’s one way to describe 61 year-old Mohammad Nurul Islam Middya. Nurul Islam is one of the pioneers of an educational renaissance among the Muslims of West Bengal. He was born in 1959 in Khalatpur, in what was then a…
For the first time in its 158-year history, the Mysuru Municipal Corporation has a Muslim woman mayor Tasneem. According to the Indian Express, Tasneem is also the youngest ever mayor of the city. She is 31. Tasneem has lived all her life in Mysuru’s Meena Bazaar area, and has been the corporator for the area…
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim who came to the United States as a young refugee in the 1990s now leads the Seattle clinic where she was cared for as a patient. She was recently promoted to medical director of Harborview Medical Center’s Pediatrics Clinic. Dr. Anisa Ibrahim was brought to the U.S. in 1993 from Somalia when…
Survivor of massacre calls for peace education at World Tolerance Summit There is no holy war in Islam, and the word ‘jihad’ in some religious books has misinterpreted the religion, the imam of a New Zealand mosque who escaped the massacre in March, said in Dubai recently. Gamal Fouda, the imam of Al Noor mosque…
Bushra Arshad is being lavished with praise for achieving 6th rank in the UPPCS, after the results were recently announced, and for being selected as SDM. This girl from Saurikh village is the only Muslim participant to become SDM in UPPSC-2017. She is the same Bushra Arshad who scored 277th rank in UPSC, results of…
About a third of the 81 Muslim-Americans who ran for office in the off-year elections in the U.S. scored electoral victories, according to Muslim-American advocacy groups. A total of 26 Muslim candidates emerged winners, and so far, this year, 34 Muslim candidates won state and local elections, said a joint press release by Muslim advocacy…
In Burkina Faso, a Catholic Sister’s efforts to promote Christian-Muslim harmony. Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, is in turmoil. For many years, the country was known for the peaceful coexistence of Christians and Muslims, who have been practising a tolerant form of Islam. In recent years, however, jihadist extremism, exported by neighboring Mali…
First Muslim Women Elected to Virginia’s State Senate Hyderabad-born Ghazala Hashmi and Libya-origin Abrar Omeish are the two first Muslim women to win elections in the United States’ southeastern State Virginia, making history in America. Hashmi, who migrated to America at a younger age, 50 years ago, is also the first Indian-American to win elections…
