In the past four years, Huda Fahmy has penned three books featuring her fictional alter ego, who’s also named Huda F. In the latest, Huda F Are You?, Fahmy moves the character to Dearborn, Michigan, a Muslim hotspot where hijabs are more common than in your average American city. Huda F Are You? is the […]
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THE world’s top Islamic finance scholars are scrutinising the validity of cryptocurrencies, as debate grows in the industry as to whether they can be deemed sharia compliant.
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He says Muslim youth must be saved from pornography available on the Internet.
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In recent years Lebanon has been reeling from one crisis to another. On Aug. 4, 2020, there was a massive explosion in an area where 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored at Beirut’s port since 2014 within walking distance of residential neighborhoods. The explosion was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history
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Stuart Jeffries wrote an excellent piece in The Guardian during the recent controversy brewed by Donald Trump against Muslims. He mentioned some of the great contributions Muslims in America have made to the country since the nation’s founding. Excerpts:
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Turkey’s economy expanded at a faster pace than most peers in the third quarter, but soaring inflation and a slump in the lira triggered by central bank interest-rate cuts pose a threat to incomes and longer-term growth. Data show the $765 billion economy beat most Group of 20 nations to grow an annual 7.4%. Gross
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THE Islamic lending arm of Turkey’s state-run Vakifbank has applied to sell 500 million lira ($127.4 million) worth of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, according to a regulatory filing.
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A sleepy little town in Turkey on a hot plain near the Syrian border, Kilis, has embraced refugees from across the border and the changes they have brought with them. Over the past decade, 3.6 million Syrians have settled in Turkey, and the population of Kilis has doubled in size, to about 200,000 people. President Recep
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STARTUP WEEKEND GAZA 4, June 19-21, was the fourth and largest SW held in Gaza. Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups. The first Startup Weekend in Gaza was launched by Google, SADAF Technologies, Mercy Corps,
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Farhan Ali (President of the MSA) leading the prayer HUNDREDS of students at Michigan University formed a circle around their Muslim classmates so they could pray safely after a woman wearing a headscarf was threatened. According to Ann Arbor police, a man ordered the woman to remove her headscarf and said he would set her
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