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Eid Mubarak from the KARAMAH team, may your year be filled with blessings, prosperity and forgiveness. We hope you will continue to support KARAMAH in our mission to promote women’s leadership, scholarly research, and our civil rights campaign. Stay tuned for our upcoming mediation project as well. If you would like to donate to KARAMAH […]

KARAMAH celebrates with congregants and supporters of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN, on a successful opening and first Jummah prayer service held last Friday. KARAMAH traveled to Tennessee last year to speak about anti-Shari’ah legislation and address the controversy surrounding the Islamic Center, and is proud to stand with those who have shown patience

After three weeks of intensive leadership, Islamic law and conflict resolution training, feelings of sisterhood, unity and hope permeated through the tears and heartfelt goodbyes which accompanied the end of KARAMAH’s 10th Annual Law and Leadership Summer Program (LLSP). After receiving nearly hundreds of inquiries from across the globe, KARAMAH selected 20 outstanding individuals to

The evening of Thursday, August the 9th, was a special one for KARAMAH and a dedicated group of its friends and supporters. It was a time to gather for iftar, share in the collective spirit of Ramadan, and remind one another of the importance of KARAMAH’s work in paving the way for betterment of both

This past Thursday, KARAMAH felt for the first time this month the true spirit of Ramadan. One of Ramadan’s greatest blessings is the gift of community, in which Muslims and people of other faiths from all walks of life come together during the holy month to eat, laugh and indulge in the company of old

Washington D.C., August 6, 2012 KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights extends our condolences to the Sikh community following the tragic shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WI. The event, which left seven people including the gunman dead, has been labeled an “act of domestic terrorism.” SEE: Gunman Kills 6 at Sikh Temple

An August 3rd PBS segment titled “The Shari’ah Controversy”, featuring KARAMAH’s Chair and Founder Dr. Azizah al-Hibri, focused on the issue of anti-Shari’ah legislation in the U.S. and what the controversy means for the religious freedom of American Muslims. Dr. al-Hibri explained the true definition of Shari’ah, and illustrated also the differences between divine law

Building upon KARAMAH’s civil rights campaign in response to a growing trend of state legislation aimed at limiting the religious rights of Muslims in the United States, KARAMAH, along with Shoulder to Shoulder, co-hosted a civil rights town hall on the evening of July 16. The event, titled “The Role of Religious Law in America:

On Tuesday, June 26th, at an invitation-only meeting conducted at U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., KARAMAH Vice President Engy Abdelkader raised serious concerns regarding religious profiling of American Muslims and Islamophobic trainings to law enforcement and military personnel. During the meeting, which was attended by representatives of civil society organizations as

On an early Tuesday morning, KARAMAH’s Executive Director Aisha Rahman challenged a group of law students from Qatar University to wrestle with the complexity and multiple layers of a domestic violence case study. Adding yet another layer, Dr. Azizah al-Hibri then challenged the students to critically think about prevailing interpretations of verses from the Qur’an