Open Miss

05/31/2016

How much do you know about your favorite celebrities?

By: Ben Winsor On the sports field and at awards ceremonies, it's common to hear people thanking God. Thanks to Allah is heard less often. Still, there are more than 2.5 million American Muslims, making it the third-largest religion in the US. While Muslims account for just 0.8% of the population,…

05/21/2016

Life is short.

Beautiful reminder by boxer Muhammad Ali on the purpose of life and spending time wisely!

05/20/2016

The power of photography.

By: Jennifer LaRue Razan Elbaba recently made a statement about attitudes toward religion in the United States, but she didn’t need to say a word. The 17-year-old from Vienna, Virginia, photographed friends and relatives wearing head scarves that are customary in the Muslim faith. She added newspape...

05/12/2016

Hunain Alkhateb

By: Cady Herring This is the first in an occasional series about the lives of Muslims in the state. Today, we profile a UM professor who excels in male-dominated science fields and stresses the importance of women’s rights. Engineering students Amanda Gurley, Briana Myles and Omar Yassin laugh with…

05/09/2016

There's a new mayor in town.

DURING the first election campaign for the mayor of London in 2000, the debate centred on whether Britain needed city mayors with executive powers at all. As Labour’s Sadiq Khan takes over the post, after defeating his Conservative opponent, Zac Goldsmith, on May 5th, no one is arguing about that an...

05/08/2016

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms out there.

To all good mothers in the world. Thank you, Moms..

05/07/2016

Ikhlas Khan

By: Anna McCollum Photo Credit Ikhlas Khan sits surrounded by watchful clock faces. His office, tucked away in the Thad Cochran Research Center on the campus of the University of Mississippi, is decorated with items that tell the tale of a man who has travelled the world, who is proud of his family,...

05/06/2016

Everyday heroes.

By: Hanna Lockman It started with a struggle for a man named Mohammad Ayub. When poverty hit his home after his father passed away, he struggled to get a proper education for himself and his siblings. He was responsible to raise and provide for his family. By going through hard times, he learned how...

05/04/2016

We are one!

05/03/2016

"There's no room for you on this bus."

By: Will Crockett (Photo Credit of Dr. Clark - The University of Mississippi) Dr. Allen Clark won’t say how he chose Arabic, in fact, he’ll tell you that Arabic chose him. “It’s a long story,” Clark said, but he tried to make it as short as possible. Clark, a computer programmer living in Boston, fo…

05/03/2016

A regular guy who didn't eat pork. Adel ElSohly.

By: Taylor Bennett (Photo Credit of Oxford's Mosque) To his non-Muslim classmates, he was just a regular guy who didn’t eat pork. Despite a popular cultural belief, the stigma around being Muslim American does not mean one has to choose an allegiance among one of the two. Born and raised in Oxford,…