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Wales appoints Hanan Issa as its first Muslim national poet

Wales appoints Hanan Issa as its first Muslim national poet

Hanan Issa, a Welsh-Iraqi poet, film-maker and artist, has been named the fifth national poet of Wales. As national poet, Issa, who is due to serve a three-year term, will represent the diverse cultures and languages of Wales and act…
More than half of ‘suspicious activity reports’ targeted Arabs and Muslims in Chicago

More than half of ‘suspicious activity reports’ targeted Arabs and Muslims in Chicago

Arab community and Muslim organisations are demanding an end to racial profiling after it was revealed that over 50 percent of “suspects” reported to the police, primarily for doing mundane things like texting or taking photos, were described as people…
Inflation after Ukraine war pushes 71 million more into poverty

Inflation after Ukraine war pushes 71 million more into poverty

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report…
Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dies

Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dies

Today, Wednesday, the head of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation, Melle Kyari, announced the death of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Barkindo. Kyari wrote on Twitter this morning: “We have lost the respected Dr.…
Police Investigating Alleged Hate Attack on New York Mosque

Police Investigating Alleged Hate Attack on New York Mosque

Arson detectives are investigating a hate crime attack at a mosque on Long Island. A member of the Fatima Al-Zahra mosque in Ronkonkoma posted video to social media showing damage to a crescent sign on the property. He said the…
Islamic call to prayer shows Muslims ‘belong’ in Minneapolis

Islamic call to prayer shows Muslims ‘belong’ in Minneapolis

Pastor Jane Buckley-Farlee was recently walking through her Minneapolis church’s Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood when an unexpected ‘song’ broke out. “I heard this tune that sounded sort of heavenly,” she said. At first, she did not know what it was – but…
Finland researchers install world’s first ‘sand battery that stores clean energy’

Finland researchers install world’s first ‘sand battery that stores clean energy’

Finnish researchers have installed the world’s first fully working “sand battery” which can store green power for months at a time. The developers say this could solve the problem of year-round supply, a major issue for green energy. Using low-grade…
Inside Indonesia’s Islamic boarding school for deaf children

Inside Indonesia’s Islamic boarding school for deaf children

At an Islamic boarding school in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Quranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly…
ISWF sends message to Libyan people and leaders calling for wisdom, vigilance and rationality

ISWF sends message to Libyan people and leaders calling for wisdom, vigilance and rationality

The Imam Shirazi World Foundation (ISWF) has sent a message to the Libyan people and their leaders, in which it called on the leaders, rulers and politicians of the Libyan society to be wise, vigilant and rational in managing the…
Norwegian extremist burns Quran in Muslim neighborhood, police arrest woman who chased him

Norwegian extremist burns Quran in Muslim neighborhood, police arrest woman who chased him

The leader of the “Stop Islamization of Norway” movement, Lars Thorne, burned a copy of the Holy Quran in a neighborhood where a large Muslim community lives on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. The act angered a number of…
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