by Sana H. Aaser [dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hile Muslims were celebrating the final days of Ramadan and Eid, two unarmed black men – Philando Castile and Alton Sterling...
[dropcap size=big]R[/dropcap]ecent discussions about the critical thinking skills of students who graduate from Islamic religious institutions have brought to question the aims of an Islamic pedagogy...
Another issue that I commonly faced in the MSA was dealing with the social dynamic of planning events as a group. Whereas the first post in...
After going through the MSA and being very active in planning events, I’ve noticed that there are certain things we should keep in mind when...
Here are the questions that were posted from the last talk on Islamic finance. In this Talk we will discuss these questions in a series of...
Let me introduce you to Hassan. He is an artist with an imagination that runs wild with more creativity in his little finger than most of...
By Hooyo Said (a pseudonym) I write this on the evening that I told my daughter’s Qur’an teacher that I wanted my child to quit memorising...
Here’s a little exercise. Try naming 5 prominent Muslims of African origin from the history of Islam. Pick from any period right from the early Makkan...
When things that you thought were entirely unrelated to each other come together, it is a joy and a relief. A joy because you experience firsthand...
My first taste of racism occurred in kindergarten, where my classmates barred me from drinking out of the water fountains. When I was in fourth grade,...
