The American Islamic Congress (AIC) would like to praise the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to maintain the suspension of the travel ban on persons from seven Muslim-majority nations. When American Muslim citizens, green card holders, and refugees are denied religious freedom, freedom of movement and due process, we must all stand in solidarity…
Read MoreThe Yemen Times highlights AIC’s Eye to Heart Film Festival in Sana’a, Yemen on March 5, 2013. The film festival is part of AIC’s and was the first of it’s kind in Sana’a. Read more about the festival in the full article here.
Read More“[Arab Spring Dreams is] a collection of essays written by very real people who live in the unfree parts of the Middle East. They take everyday risks on behalf of the very “values” that so many privileged and proper people in the free world arrogate as exclusively their own. The essays are a potpourri of…
Read MoreArab Spring Dreams scratches well beneath the surface of the societies concerned and probes into their psychological and social fabric. And in doing so, it proves that contrary to the claims of so many Arab politicians, not everything that is wrong with the region is someone else’s fault. Read the rest of the review of AIC’s…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, September 26, 2012 – Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC) will represent her organization at the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Sept. 26-28. The General Assembly will set the United Nations agenda for the upcoming year and will focus specifically on rule of law. Al-Suwaij’s attendance…
Read MoreIn the one-year period ending in mid-2010, 75 percent of the world’s population lived in a nation with high or very high restrictions on religious beliefs or practices, according to the study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The increasingly hostile climate doesn’t come as a surprise to John Pinna, director…
Read MoreThe Times Literary Supplement recently reviewed “Arab Spring Dreams”, edited by AIC’s Nasser Weddady and activist Sohrab Ahmari, along with five other books analyzing the Arab Spring. From the review: ‘Arab Spring Dreams was written by those with the most at stake, people under the age of twenty-six living in places where conformism and obedience…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, April 30, 2012 – The American Islamic Congress (AIC) today celebrated the publication of Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran. With a foreword by Gloria Steinem and praise from Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa, the collection is a testament to the aspiration for freedom…
Read MoreBOSTON, April 11, 2012 – Last evening the AIC Center hosted “Bangladesh: The Politics of Diaspora, Religion and Gender,” a panel discussion by local experts who took a fresh look at how religion and immigration are influencing the state of human rights and women’s rights in Bangladesh and in the extensive Bangladeshi diaspora. The event…
Read MoreMORGANTOWN, W. VA., April 3, 2012 – AIC’s Nasser Weddady participated today in a lively panel discussion on Social Media and Free Speech in the Middle East. The event took place at West Virginia University’s Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism. Said Nasser, “West Virginians have [poor internet connection] in common with most Arab states and villages and towns.…
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