We are proud to announce the most recent work of KARAMAH scholar, Dr. Zainab Alwani. Dr. Alwani’s article, Maqasid Qur’aniyya: A Methodology on Evaluating Modern Challenges and Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat, was published in September of this year in The Muslim World: Special Issue on “Judaism and Islam in America.” This work was part of a joint four year project by […]
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Today, KARAMAH celebrates the 20th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”). VAWA was and has been instrumental in instituting governmental authority to punish offenders of domestic violence. It represents a turning point in the national response to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Affecting broad segments of our community and spanning across
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On September 11, 2014, a group of fourteen women from nations across South and Central Asia visited KARAMAH as a part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) on “Women Leaders: Promoting Peace and Security.” The delegation met with KARAMAH staff, and discussed issues of conflict resolution, education, and women’s rights.
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In a historic settlement on September 8th, the Department of Justice entered into an agreement with the School District of Philadelphia, which resolved a religious accommodations lawsuit filed in March of 2014. Our own Raheemah Abdulaleem, Esq., the KARAMAH Vice President/Secretary, was instrumental in helping the government win the landmark settlement. Serving as senior Justice Department Lawyer in the
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Today we grieve the loss of our sister Tayyibah Taylor. She is one of our own, a pioneer in the Muslim American community, and a dear friend. Tayyibah was founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of Azizah Magazine, the first mainstream publication for Muslim women in the United States. As a visionary, she recognized the urgent need
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It is with great happiness that we present our 12th class of the Law and Leadership Summer Program. Though we miss them, we are excited about their next steps. They are a talented group of leaders, and we are sure that they will affect substantial change in their respective communities. Mr. Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington
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Since its inception, KARAMAH has stood firmly on one founding principle: Muslim women need to tell their own story. When KARAMAH began, many people around the world wanted to speak in Muslim women’s voices. Not much has changed in the past 21 years. So, as a part of KARAMAH’s annual Law and Leadership Summer Program,
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On July 17th, community leaders and friends of KARAMAH gathered at the El-Hibri Foundation to celebrate faith, friendship and community in the spirit of Ramadan. During KARAMAH’s annual Iftar, Dr. Amr Abdalla, Vice President of Salam Institute for Peace and Justice and former Vice Rector of the United Nations’ University for Peace, gave a presentation
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Last night featured a packed room and many questions during a special event discussing the U.S. government’s engagement in torture against detainees suspected of terrorism. Cosponsored by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, The Constitution Project and Amnesty International USA, the gathering was prompted by separate reports from the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee
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For years, whether it was the post-9/11 NSEERS program, the raids on Muslim organizations in 2002, or more recently the numerous cases involving Muslims being profiled by law enforcement at airports and elsewhere, racial and religious profiling has become an unfortunate constant in our communities. The stories are endless as we often hear about –
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