Abdullah Shawky leads a rally in support of the Libyan Revolution in front of Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Born in Los Angeles to Egyptian parents, 27-year-old Abdullah Shawky is the Events Director at the Muslim Legal Fund of America (www.mlfa.org) and an activist in North … Read More →
Category Archives: Ethnicity
Telisa & Idil
Telisa Roessaptono (playing guitar & singing) and Idil Burale (singing) are performing Redemption Song by Bob Marley for the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fundraising event at T Cafe, Toronto, Canada. Both Telisa and Idil graduated from University of Toronto. Telisa is now continuing her studies in … Read More →
Lubna
Lubna was born in the commercial capital of India. She has a great fighting spirit and is always read to face any challenges; character traits which she believes to have inherited from her father. She became more observant of Islam once she read the Quran … Read More →
Maimona Khan
Maimona khan is a qualified secondary school teacher. Although her specialism is history, she has dabbled and taught religion, mathematics, business studies, ICT and American SATs. She has just returned from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a journey which reinstated her passion for travelling and exploring her … Read More →
Raa’id Khan
Raa’id Khan, also known by his stage name Silent-K, is a spoken word poet and activist from South Florida. Raa’id graduated from Florida Atlantic Univerisity with a Bachelors in Small Business Managment/Entreprenurship and Marketing. He has been writing poetry for the past ten years and … Read More →
Nadia Janjua
Nadia Janjua is an artist and architect based in Western Maryland, USA, working under the business name NJARTitecture (Nadia Janjua Art + Architecture). Born to Kashmiri-Pakistani parents in the forested mountains of Western Maryland, Nadia has always been strongly influenced by the solitude, beauty and … Read More →
Aalia
Aalia first started her Youtube channel just over a year ago to share some tips on hijab styling. However the response she received was amazing, and she started to take request from her subscribers. Her videos have expanded to include beauty tips and modest fashion. … Read More →
Barry Danielian
Hailing from New Jersey, meet Barry Danielian (http://www.barrydanielian.com/), a renowned trumpeter and instructor in Filipino & Malaysian combat arts. Barry has worked with diverse artists such as Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, KRS One, Billy Joel and Bono to name a few. Since an early age, … Read More →
Nzinga Knight
“Nzinga Knight is a New York native fashion designer whose line, Nzinga Knight, launched in 2008. Nzinga studied fashion design and fine art at Pratt Institute School of Design in New York City where she received a BFA in fashion design (class of 2005). Noted … Read More →
Fahad Faruqui
Fahad Faruqui is a journalist, writer and educator. He is an alumni of Columbia University, where he read philosophy of religion as an undergrad and returned to New York for an M.S. in Journalism. Fahad’s writings are widely published and you can read an assortment … Read More →
Hazel Gomez
“An activist without spirituality is just an agitated person.” Hazel was born into a Catholic family and after researching for over two years, accepted Islam at the age of eighteen. She was awed by a conversation on the attributes of God between Shaykh Hamza Yusuf … Read More →
Quadri Oshibotu
Hard working and ambitious, Quadri (‘Abdul-Qaadir) Oshibotu is currently working on obtaining his Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) at the world renowned Schulich School of Business located in Toronto, Ontario. He is learning the theory of business as well as many other subjects including … Read More →