Edina Lekovic is the communications director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles. She founded Elev8, an arts-based youth program that has a mission to identify, train, and develop young community leaders. Edina has frequently appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and The History Channel. She was managing editor of Al-Taliband editor-in-chief of the UCLA’s [...]
Former Muslim and feminist speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali gave a controversial lecture at the Memorial Union Tuesday night as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Over a thousand people endured hour-long lines and airport levels of security to attend the highly-anticipated event in which she delivered a message critical of Muslim society and called for [...]
A growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised, BBC Asian Network has found. This is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law. Shaheeda Khan married her fiance in a traditional Islamic religious [...]
Race relations are again under scrutiny, and the question remains: what must be done to heal the wounds left by so many ugly acts. Rick Feneley reports. You can’t see the bridge from Bankstown to Cronulla, but it’s there. The community bridge builders got to work soon after the Cronulla riots of December 2005, when [...]
By Suleiman Al-Nabhani ONAIZA – As debate rages in the Kingdom over the pace and manner of women’s entry into the workplace, a young woman and her mother have taken the initiative to start their own business, with the help of the government. Razan is a young Saudi electronics geek who operates her own software [...]
The ex-wife of Boris Johnson has shocked her family by secretly marrying a 23-year-old Muslim, she announced on Thursday. Allegra Mostyn-Owen even implied she would be content to be one of several of his wives. Since she is 45, she said she would be happy for her new husband to have children with a younger [...]
I am keen to meet Allegra Mostyn-Owen and support her invaluable work at the mosque in Forest Gate, east London. She runs art classes there for Muslim women and children. Muslim minds and lives are being closed down worldwide by fanatics who deny young people art, music and books. This intrepid white woman dares to push [...]
The Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection is tasked with the role of providing effective protection to women and children. An interview with Farida Al-Obaidly, General Director of the organisation. What are the major objectives of the Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection? The institution aims at the follwoing: 1 Assistance in the [...]
A 15-year-old British girl murdered by her father in so-called honour killing was reportedly pregnant at the time of her death. Tulay Goren disappeared in January 1999, shortly after her father told his eight-year-old son to kiss his sister goodbye as he would never see her again. Her body was never found. Mehmet Goren, 49, [...]
It is a scene of peaceful serenity. Rows of men kneel in deep prayer inside a large hall on the outskirts of Jakarta. The women sit just behind them, their heads bowed in quiet contemplation. It could be afternoon prayers anywhere in Indonesia, a vast Muslim-majority archipelago, but this scene happens to be inside the [...]
