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UPDATE ON Short Book “Moses on Leadership” Now Available
NOVEMBER 9, 2014 UPDATE: This short book is now available on amazon.com. Here is one review of the book. ================================...
Iqbal Unus
Nov 4, 20142 min read
ENHANCING THE IMPACT OF EACH KHUTBAH … a few suggestions from the receiving end
Muslims are part of a teaching and learning experience every week of the year, every year of their adult lives. Dr. A. Rahman Khan shares...
Iqbal Unus
Oct 14, 20141 min read
Okay to marry among “good people”
In May this year, my wife and I were returning to Virginia from a visit to Arizona. On the plane across the aisle sat a women who turned...
Iqbal Unus
Oct 6, 20141 min read
ISNA Session on Elderly Muslim: A promising way forward
The ISNA 51st Annual Convention in Detroit, MI this Labor Day weekend featured a session titled Elderly Muslims: Challenges on an Aging...
Iqbal Unus
Sep 6, 20141 min read
The Book is Out “Muslim American Life : Reflections and Perspectives”
Well, after a long wait, finally my edited volume “Muslim American Life : Reflections and Perspectives” is out, with a foreword by Prof....
Iqbal Unus
Jun 1, 20141 min read
Back to the Forum
I am back from my year-long pro-bono work with ISNA and look forward to writing once again. More than that, I look forward to hearing...
Iqbal Unus
May 31, 20141 min read
Surveillance, for what purpose?
The Boston bombing provides a peek into yet another slice of Muslim American life, an ever present sense of ‘let it not be one of us’....
Iqbal Unus
Apr 23, 20131 min read
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS FOR SCIENCE IN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS
ISNA Education Forum / March 29-31, 2013 SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS FOR SCIENCE IN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS Iqbal J. Unus 1. SCIENCE AND SCIENCE...
Iqbal Unus
Mar 16, 201326 min read
An opportunity for YOU to participate and learn!
Help the Muslim American community understand its past and know its present to shape its future. Help compose a Muslim American...
Iqbal Unus
Feb 24, 20131 min read
“Women Friendly” families – the next frontier?
By now we have all heard of the ‘women friendly’ mosque – a drive spearheaded by ISNA through a publication by the same name. Not too...
Iqbal Unus
Nov 22, 20121 min read
The sun will rise on Wednesday, but will there be sunshine?
Indeed, the sun will rise on Wednesday, November 7, as it always does. But, will there be sunshine or will it be all cloudy? Who will be...
Iqbal Unus
Nov 5, 20121 min read
Documenting ‘Muslim American History and Life’
If anything, Muslim presence in America has come of age rather quickly in the past several decades. The transformation of the question an...
Iqbal Unus
Oct 10, 20121 min read
Freedom AFTER speech?
Speaking at a Washington think tank event a couple of years ago, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim jokingly said, “In Malaysia, we have freedom of...
Iqbal Unus
Sep 18, 20121 min read
Washington Post discovers what is most significant about Muslim Americans: Getting married, of cours
Thousands of Muslims gathered in the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. over the Labor Day weekend. They discussed dozens...
Iqbal Unus
Sep 5, 20121 min read
A Commentary on the Sikh Temple Massacres
Another side of the Muslim American life – will it get worse before it gets better? The New York Times publishes a telling commentary: ...
Iqbal Unus
Aug 22, 20121 min read
“Are you fasting?” A question of identity
On August 11, 2012, my wife and I were at a department store at our local shopping mall where I was trying out new shoes. A young lady...
Iqbal Unus
Aug 12, 20121 min read
Manifesting culture the American way
America is all about celebrating cultures – think of GermanFest, China Town. Lots of festivities, folk performances, what have you. But...
Iqbal Unus
Jul 31, 20121 min read
What we don’t hear enough about Muslims …
Engy Abdelkader writes in the Huffington Post about Muslims, under the title Ordinary Muslims Doing Extraordinary Things , that escape...
Iqbal Unus
Jul 31, 20121 min read
Study about Mosques and Imams in America
The webinar this past Saturday on mosques and imams in America was very well attended, indeed. Over 300 participants made the audience...
Iqbal Unus
Jun 27, 20121 min read
The Imam from Within – New Leadership in the Muslim Community
The American Imam? The following news story is an example of an evolving – and very welcome – phenomenon: the emergence of new leadership...
Iqbal Unus
Mar 28, 20121 min read
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