By Lisha Azad WHATSAPP NEWSFLASH: Mosques to be indefinitely closed across the country for all prayers! As I crept out of bed, I could hear the...
Panic over the global public health steamroller COVID-19 has many of us in the Muslim community thinking about the future: specifically a future without you, the...
In light of the suspension of Jummah prayers and the mosque closings across the nation, I want to share my expertise as an epidemiologist. Some people...
Important relevant information on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 To date there are officially ~1600 cases of COVID-19 in USA with most cases in the states of...
On Wednesday the WHO declared the COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, outbreak as a pandemic. A pandemic describes a disease that is spreading between people in...
As Coronavirus (COVID-19) has now become a pandemic, children from all grades and places have had an overflux of information on COVID-19. This information overload from...
Last semester, I was teaching Roxane Gay’s essay “Peculiar Benefits” to a class of college freshmen. Following Gay’s lead, I asked my students to reflect critically...
Last night I had the pleasure of hosting His Excellency Attorney General Abubacarr Marie Tambadou, the Justice Minister of the Gambia and Imam Omar Suleiman at...
Let’s talk about overeating. It’s a touchy subject, so I’ll start. Over the span of 13 years I gave birth to 5 children and I also...
Imam Mohamed Magid joined a group of Muslim leaders from around the world to visit the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Auschwitz consisted of...