Malika Bilal tells the story of an immigrant with a 200-page pension file detailing his experiences. Malika Bilal (Senior Presenter., Al Jazeera English) tells the recently discovered story of ...
A new website from the Brooklyn Historical Society sheds light on the history and experiences of Muslims in Kings County through dozens of oral histories — allowing outsiders to view the borough ...
Host Aymann Ismail explores how Muslims shaped the imagination of America’s founding generation. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur’an? That George Washington owned enslaved ...
A small force of around 300 Crusaders found themselves facing an overwhelming Muslim army of nearly 10,000 soldiers. The odds ...
New York City is rolling out lessons on Jewish and Muslim American history. Too often, some leaders say, what students know ...
Visitors often get to know Harlem, N.Y., through its many walking tours – from gospel music to architecture to food. But on a recent Sunday morning, two dozen people join their guide to learn about ...
In addition to anti-Black racism An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially ...
On the border of East Harlem and the Upper East Side, the copper dome of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York glows green against the skyline. It’s where Asad Dandia begins one of his walking tours ...
For the past 10 years I have taught a seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science entitled ‘Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe’. Many of the ...
Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City’s first Muslim mayor has been hailed as a historic milestone, and that is true — for the Big Apple. But across the Hudson River and around the country, ...