Deah Shaddy Barakat was a man of varied interests and talents: The second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry started a successful fundraiser aimed at […]
If you’ve been paying attention to recent world events, you may have noticed some inconsistencies in media coverage that hint at an agenda of maintaining a dangerously divisive narrative. From […]
Like base-stealing specialists and sub-300-pound NFL linemen, elite two-sport athletes are something of an endangered species on the global sports landscape. Two of the last notables to achieve that status […]
It seems like old history now — to those who even remember it happened — but the Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to have rudely shut the New England Patriots’ […]
As the Open Sud de France rolls on this week, Tunisian tennis star Malek Jaziri is at the center of an investigation by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for […]
Former college basketball star Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was among the 14 Muslim-American community leaders who met with President Barack Obama and senior officials on Feb. 4 at the White House in […]
While he waits his turn for a career-defining fight — and major payday — against Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao, two-time world champion boxer Amir Khan is making business […]
Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on Jan. 31, 2015 In the fortnight of wall-to-wall media hype dedicated to Super Bowl XLIX, no storyline has gone unturned. From Bill Belichick‘s deflated footballs […]
Ameer Abdullah passed on a chance to enter the 2014 NFL Draft to return to the University of Nebraska for his senior year. The 5-foot-9 running back’s primary motivation was […]
A new list of old boxers ranks Muslim American multi-division champion Bernard Hopkins the second-best fighter over 40 years old in the sport’s long history. Jarrett Zook of Boxing.com put […]
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