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  • Six episodes, total run time 88 min.

  • Report back from our 2003 fact-finding mission to the West Bank with the NY Solidarity Movement for a Free Palestine.

  • 7 cities and 4 refugee camps visited. See the photos and hear the testimonies we collected. Identifies violations of Human Rights norms and articles by Israeli occupation forces that we witnessed and documented.

  • Excellent resource for High School and college students.

palestine report back

  • American Muslim heritage and history, an important facet of the American story, is rooted in Islamic West Africa with its legacy of spiritual devotion and knowledge.

  • When Muslims reached the Americas in mass numbers via the transatlantic slave trade, bodies were displaced and enslaved but hearts were in-tact.

  • Islam in the Caribbean and South America shows us revolts against false masters (The Maroons in Jamaica, Makandal and the Haitian Revolution, the Bahia Rebellion in Brazil).

  • American Muslims: we can’t know where we’re going if we stay disconnected from the deep history of Islam in the Americas.

  • Excellent resource for High School and college students.

muslims in the atlantic world

Women in the qur’an, sunnah and islamic history

Does Islam have a herstory? You might not guess so, rifling through the canon’s abundant authoritative textual sources, or encountering many Muslim spaces and leadership structures. Nonetheless Islamic textual sources and history do present a very clear, consistent and liberatory view of womanhood and girlhood, nestled within the broader contours of gender.