By Hana Khan on January 19, 2010
History, in my opinion, is useless unless we implement its lessons to our present society. Great leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., would have struggled and sacrificed in vain if the proceeding generations fail to draw upon the fundamental principles from such historical movements that managed to pull society from the ugly and dark [...]
Posted in Features, Opinion | Tagged Jr., Martin Luther King, Non-Violent Action
By Maral Ali on December 26, 2009
By Maral Ali
Al-Talib meets with former UCLA graduate student Zeinab Mousavi to talk about the Mousavi family’s experience of having their father be imprisoned in the Terre Haute, Indiana CMU.
Al-Talib: Since his transfer to the Terre Haute CMU, how often has your family been able to visit Mr. Mousavi?
Mousavi: A couple times. My mom [...]
Posted in Features, News
By Zenith Rahman on December 26, 2009
By Zenith Rahman
A young Muslim man from Southern California was named of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber on September 26th.
Atif Moon, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded the Center for Global Understanding (CFGU) when he felt the need to create a public organization which integrated and voiced Muslim [...]
Posted in Features, News
By Sussan Fazel on December 8, 2009
Mayes’ daughter, Lichelle James, gets her blood pressure taken by one of Umma Clinic’s nurses.
Lola Mayes rushed home from work mid-morning because one of her daughters was ill and needed urgent care. Her daughter’s Medi-Cal insurance had recently been cut. Like the other times her family needed medical attention, she took her daughter to [...]
Posted in Features
By altalib on April 20, 2009
www.guardian.co.uk
by Yousef Farsakh
As the situation in Gaza deteriorates and the world’s superpower endorses the growing violence by not bringing accountability to Israel’s actions, many have forgotten about the humanitarian blockade of the West Bank. While not remotely as deadly and evil as the blockade, siege, and now massacre in Gaza, the world must not forget [...]
Posted in Features, News | Tagged Gaza, Hospital, Israel, masacre, Nablus, Palestine Children Relief Fun, PCRF, West Bank
By altalib on April 20, 2009
By Narges Moaddel
faculty.maxwell.syr.edu
Many of us have heard the word Hajj and know that it is the fifth pillar of Islam. Ask people what kind of experience it is and you”ll hear a wide variety of responses such as spiritual, beautiful, difficult, crowded, etc. What does Hajj mean? Hajj literally means “to set out for a [...]
Posted in Features, News | Tagged Hajj, Ka'ba, Madina
By altalib on March 30, 2009
by Osma Dossani
flickr.com
The Facts: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has built the Museum of Tolerance here in LA, has been issued the permit to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. There is some tension behind this because many believe that it is on a Muslim cemetery. This issue ought to be judged with knowledge, [...]
Posted in Features, News | Tagged Building, CAIR, Jerusalem, Museum of Tolerance, Muslim Cemetery, NAGPRA, Simon Wiesenthal Center, UCLA
By altalib on March 30, 2009
by Nader Nasr
Narrated by Ibn “Umar: The Prophet (Peace and Blessings be upon him) said, “Amongst the trees, there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a Muslim. Tell me the name of that tree.” Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas. And I thought of [...]
Posted in Features, News | Tagged Dates, Food, Hadith, Health, Ramadan, Sunnah
