My Name is Chakib
By Michelle Schafieh, Mahnoor Saleem, & Ayman Ahmed
Statement of Support: Organizations Release Statement in Support of Afrikan Student Union
Statement of Support 10/22/15 We, the American Indian Student Association, Asian Pacific Coalition, MEChA de UCLA, Muslim Student Association, Pacific Islands’ Student Association, Queer Alliance, Samahang Pilipino, and Vietnamese Student Union at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), are part of the Mother Organization coalition, a coalition of student organizations at UCLA created in response to the low numbers…
Taqwa with Talents
“Allahu Akbar.” God is Greater. Understanding that this world is much greater than us, and that God is much Greater than ourselves, opens the heart, mind, and soul of the believer. It brings the realization that what you do with your life is solely to please Allah (SWT) and has nothing to do with providing…
Religion and Nationhood in South Asia
Stories of religion defining ‘us’ and ‘them’ in South Asia are not new. The political religious fractures underlying the societies in that region that we see today can arguably go back to the British colonial policies in the Indian sub-continent. During their colonization of India for two centuries, British administrators primarily categorized their subjects based…
We Write Our Own History
As the famous saying by Winston Churchill goes, “History is written by the victors.” It’s not hard to understand the logic behind his words: those who write what we’re taught today often incorporate a subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, bias towards themselves. The victor is always given the power to write as he sees…
Grande Mosquée de Paris is not so ‘Grande’ at all…
Not only is the Grand Mosque an ideal tourist attraction for any Muslim visiting Paris, France, but it is also listed in CITIx60: Paris (A trusted tourist booklet where 60 leading local creatives bring you the best of the city) as one of the top 5 ‘Landmark and Architecture’ attractions to visit by anyone. This…
Samra’s Poem
See, my name is Samra Samra Kesinovic. By now, the letters that string together into the formation of my name Have disappeared into the horizons of numbers and numbers ticking into television screens, tallied dashes, And flying announcements. “One gone!” the media screeches! “Never Come back!” they cry. See, my name is Samra and my…
Maryam Had a Little Lamb
Maryam had a little lamb, and then it died…with hundreds of other lambs for the Eid feast. Eid-Al-Adha commemorates the moment biblical prophet Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his young son, Ishmael, but instead symbolically sacrificed a sheep. Given the millions of Muslims who slaughter livestock to commemorate this event each year, it…