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Hena Zuberi

Hena Zuberi is the Editor in Chief of Muslimmatters.org. She leads the DC office of the human rights organization, Justice For All, focusing on stopping the genocide of the Rohingya under Burma Task Force, advocacy for the Uighur people with the Save Uighur Campaign and Free Kashmir Action. She was a Staff Reporter at the Muslim Link newspaper which serves the DC Metro. Hena has worked as a television news reporter and producer for CNBC Asia and World Television News. Active in her SoCal community, Hena served as the Youth Director for the Unity Center. Using her experience with Youth, she conducts Growing Up With God workshops. hena.z@muslimmatters.org Follow her on Twitter @henazuberi.

Stories By Hena Zuberi

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Aafia Siddiqui- Memories of MIT to Carswell Prison

I prayed two rakah salah before writing this – I wrote it after her sentencing but honestly have not had the guts to publish it. I...
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US Muslims: a new consumer niche

By RACHEL ZOLL Businessweek.com In the ballroom of an upscale hotel a short train ride from New York, advertisers, food industry executives and market researchers mingled...
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Muslim Women Gain Higher Profile in U.S.

Around Sept. 11, 2001, not long after she founded the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, Soumaya Khalifa heard from a group whose name sounded like “Bakers...
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Enrollment of Muslim students is growing at Catholic colleges in U.S.

by William Wan- Washington Post On a quick break between classes last week, Reef Al-Shabnan slipped into an empty room at Catholic University to start her...
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The Great Islamophobic Crusade

Max Blumenthal is a writing fellow for the Nation Institute and author of the bestselling book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party (Nation...
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A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year …an address to the nation from President Barack Obama (as reported by Michael Moore)

My Fellow Americans: Nine years ago today we invaded the nation of Afghanistan. I’d just turned 40. I had a Discman and an Oldsmobile and had...
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Child + Teacher + Parent = Quran Lessons

Cold, sitting on a wet rock, he would wait outside his teacher’s door for hours, waiting for him to come out so he could ask him...
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This Christmas, Give the Gift of Knowledge About Islam

By Haroon Mughal I love books. I have hundreds, as I suppose any aspiring academic should. I need to move out of Manhattan, because I can’t...
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She Said, I Prefer A Broken Neck… – Amir Sulaiman

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpSC2jtb8Pc&feature=related[/youtube] She said that she would prefer a broken neck to another broken heart. I said “Remember, even the beauty of birth leaves its own scars...
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Travel delay for Mecca-bound N.Va. Muslims

For months, the 17 Northern Virginians had excitedly prepared for the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that is sacred to devout Muslims. They had saved thousands...