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Umar Hakim: Humanitarian Day Reborn for a Ramadan in a Pandemic
This article was originally published in The Washington Post and Religion News Service, with the support of CRCC’s global project on engaged spirituality. Last year, Ramadan ended just days before the murder …
How to solve the difficult problem of adding ‘Muslim’ to ‘American’
This post originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times. In mid-September, my 6-year-old daughter ran into our living room and literally started jumping for joy. “Baba, it’s a miracle!” she told her father with …
From Louisville to Orlando: Muslim Americans in a Time of Hope and Crisis
Many of my American Muslim friends from all across the U.S. traveled to Louisville a few weekends ago to pay their respects and to reflect on the life of Muhammad Ali. They …
Muslim Voices Tell Trump ‘What’s Going On’ With Muslims in The Atlantic
CRCC Contributing Fellow Rhonda Roumani is one of six Muslim voices responding to Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims coming into the United States in The Atlantic. Here is her contribution: If …
Hope and Fear in an Election Year: Lessons in Democracy from Egyptian Bloggers
On the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, I stood outside a dormitory at the University of Texas at Austin, debating two Egyptian bloggers about Obama’s win. About two months ago, …
Why Are Muslim Americans Feeling the Bern? (Updated)
Editor’s Note: Rhonda updated this post to reflect the broader trends of the election. A coalition of Muslim, Black and Latino activists recently shut down a rally for presidential contender Donald Trump …
Syria’s Children Are Our Children
A couple weeks before the picture went viral, I stood on the very shores where three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body was found. I was in Turkey for a wedding and spent four days …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Not the Reformer Islam Needs. Here Are the Real Reformers
To the chagrin of many Muslims, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is back on the talk show circuit, promoting her new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. And, for the first time, …
Boston, One Year Later
(Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, and his brother Tamerlan in an FBI surveillance photo) One year ago, I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary with my mother-in-law, my two kids and my husband in our …
Syria stains the world’s conscience
This commentary was originally published in The Financial Times. When Libya’s Muammer Gaddafi threatened to go street to street and house to house to snuff out his opponents, Barack Obama addressed Americans …
Searching for Islam’s New Narratives in our Own Back Yard
In the past few weeks, two familiar voices have reemerged to explain the violence and rage that erupted in Libya, Egypt, and across the Muslim world earlier this month. Ayaan Hirsi Ali …
Syria’s Stockholm syndrome and its sectarian war
This post originally appeared in The Financial Times. When I worked in Syria as a journalist from 2004 to 2007 I was surprised to learn how many backed the regime – including …