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Articles of the author Naazish YarKhan
Faith, football and fasting
Chicago, Illinois – At the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London on Friday, the world celebrated the Olympic athletes joining together for a truly global event. Amongst them were a number of Muslim athletes, who are facing the intersection (...)

02 - 08 - 2012
Cross-pollination distinguishes great Islamic art
Chicago, Illinois – When exploring ways to bring people closer, the arts are an oft-neglected tool. With their beauty and potential to elicit emotions, they have the potential to bridge cultural divisions. When the art in question is itself the (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
American Dervish: A conversation about love, identity and faith
CHICAGO, Illinois: Ayad Akhtar's “American Dervish,” set in pre–9/11 American suburbia, is a bold debut novel, where the author seems to hold the American Muslim community by the collar, and shake it into recognizing its failings — whether they are (...)

04 - 03 - 2012
Honoring those who search for common ground
CHICAGO: The British government, the descendants of former US President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, the Mathare Youth Sports Association in Nairobi and the multi-media organization Just Vision may at not, at first glance, seem to (...)

18 - 11 - 2010
Rock & Roll Jihad
CHICAGO, Illinois: A bearer of hope, Pakistani American rock star Salman Ahmad’s recent memoir, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution, is suffused with the warmth of spirituality and the author’s deep-rooted faith in God. “We (...)

26 - 03 - 2010
Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Illinois: Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked to hear the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on widespread occurrence of rape in Afghanistan. As a Muslim who knows that the core of her (...)

18 - 12 - 2009
Chicago prize to Pakistani education activist
CHICAGO: Behind the news of suicide bombings and displaced groups in Pakistan, people in the country are working to foster a generation of young people equipped to solve the country's problems. Shehzad Roy, renowned Pakistani pop star and (...)

20 - 11 - 2009
Chicago prize to Pakistani education activist
CHICAGO, Illinois: Behind the news of suicide bombings and displaced groups in Pakistan, people in the country are working to foster a generation of young people equipped to solve the country s problems. Shehzad Roy, renowned Pakistani pop star (...)

19 - 11 - 2009
Israeli, Palestinian teens talk peace
CHICAGO, Illinois: Although Israelis and Palestinians have been meeting and communicating at a grassroots level to better understand one another and work toward a more peaceful future, the initiatives that bring them together do not receive the (...)

23 - 10 - 2009
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