Ummah Wide Global Week in Review
The Ummah Wide Global Week in Review is a collection of our favorite content from across the web & around our global community (Ummah). Featuring the best links, video & sounds from the week with a focus on global Muslim culture, social justice, art & life. You have something you think we should share? Tweet us @ummahwide
What We’ve been working on: Over the last 9 weeks we have been all over the world meeting with entrepreneurs, creatives, writers, filmmakers, scholars, technologists and investors. We are very excited to be home in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next six weeks during Ramadan.
We have slowed down publishing on Medium as we focus on building our business and also as we get ready to launch our first of what we hope to be many short films. Hacking for Peace is a short film directed by the brilliant Sundance filmmaker Musa Syeed that follows the founder of LaunchGood Chris Blauvelt from Detroit to Abu Dhabi as he takes part in the Hackathon at the Muslim Peace Forum, one of the worlds largest gatherings of Muslim religious leaders.
WATCH THIS:
We just subscribed to Alchemiya and there is so much to write about with all the incredible films on this new subscription television service. Make sure to check out the Muslim Traveller’s Guide to Granada with Hanna Whiteman.
How This FBI Strategy is Actually Creating US-Based Terrorists by Trevor Aaronson, Ted
Guantanamo’s Child, Omar Khadr — “Unprecedented access and an exclusive interview with Omar Khadr during his first days of freedom.” Al Jazeera English
Anti-Racism Work — Margari Aziza Hill, Rad Talks
Saad Lamjarred — LM3ALLEM blew up the internet becoming the most viewed Arabic music video on YouTube of all time with 40 million views in a month.
Ramadan 2015 (cute add)
Football Rebels, Al Jazeera English
LISTEN TO THIS:
Sexual Violence and the Necessity of Compassion and Justice by Sumaya Abubaker, Women’s Mosque of America
Episode 21: Professor Sherman Jackson, Diffused Congruence: The American Muslim Experience
UMMAH AMERICA’S
Major Questions Remain Unanswered in Boston Killing of Alleged ISIS Beheading Plotter, by Glenn Greenwald & Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept
In Boston, Media Again Trash a Police Shooting Victim by Uncritically “Reporting” Police Accusations by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Why Baltimore Blew Up by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Black Deaths Matter: Why is it So Hard for Families of Color to Get Justice When a Loved One is Murdered by Edwin Rios with Kai Wright, The Nation
MPAC, Countering Violent Extremism & American Muslim Astroturf by Ahmed Shaikh, AltMuslim
In Cuba, A Museum Exhibit is the Closest Thing Muslim’s Have to a Mosque, Ayman Ismaili, Animal New York
Daughters of the Dust: A Classic in American Cinema by By Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Sapelo Square
UMMAH AFRICA:
Egypt’s Capital Mirage: The Country’s Plan to Build a Shinny New Capital in the Desert by Lorena Rios, Roads & Kingdoms
Teaching peace to protect young Nigerians from hate — Islamic leaders in impoverished Borno State band together to keep vulnerable youth from the grip of Boko Haram. by Chika Oduah, Al Jazeera English
UMMAH EUROPE:
A New London Art Collective Grows as an Empowering Space for Muslim Women by Sara Chadhry, Ummah Wide
UMMAH ASIA:
Rohingya in Burma: Claim That One in Ten Have Fled on Boats — “Around 100,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled by smuggling boats three years after sectarian violence started.” by Oliver Holmes, The Guardian
UMMAH AL-SHARQ:
One Roof, Two Religions by Bnar Sardar, Roads & Kingdoms
Ten Takeaways from iBridges Berlin 2015 by Riham Kousa, Barka Bits
Israel’s Clandestine Alliance with Gulf Arab States is Going Public by Murtaza Hussein, The Intercept
Iran’s Generation ‘Normal’ by Roula Kalaf, Financial Times
How Isis Crippled al-Qaida — “The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.” by Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman and Mustafa Khalili, The Guardian
UMMAH STARTUPS:
We need more business’s like Red Bay Coffee
Check out this great article about Veil Hijab — This High-Tech Hijab Will Literally Make Muslim Women Cooler by Ahmed Ali Akbar, BuzzFeed
We are very excited about the upcoming launch of Mystic Man Beard after we received a sample of their organic beard oil with sedr extract from the company founder Justin Mashouf. Check them out here:
UMMAH TECHNOLOGY:
How Tesla Will Change the World by Tim Urban, Wait But Why
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