THE WESTERN FRONT: Club hopes to ‘enlighten’ campus about Muslim community

Project Nur, AIC’s student-led campus initiative, expands to Western Washington University. Project Nur program coordinator Tyler Dixon explains why the club is a good fit for the university. “Western is a multicultural and diverse university, and focused on a lot of things that Project Nur is very focused on — intercultural understanding, dialogue, breaking down…

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First Muslim women art exhibition held in Boston

The American Islamic Congress (AIC) launched Boston’s first-ever painting exhibition of Muslim women artists on Feb. 15. The exhibition titled, “Home and Away: Shared narratives of Gendered Identity,” is a four-part series showcasing the work of four Boston-based Muslim female artists from Iran, Pakistan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

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