online rihla

NPR has started a series highlighting growing urban centers.  This week is Karachi.  While I haven’t heard any mention of Islam (granted, I only heard the development story this morning and skimmed the rest online), there is a hidden ghost of religion in the story, as the folks at GetReligion would say.
This morning’s story spoke […]

NPR has recently featured two stories about muslims working in an environmentally friendly manner in two very different ways.
 First, there is a story on the group Solar Cities in Cairo, who are devoloping solar water heaters at the grass roots level for inhabitants of medieval Cairo.  Not only are they tackling environmental issues, they’re also […]

From NPR, a piece on an american convert married to an Imam.

But it would take another five years before Jerusha made the leap of faith. It was March of 2000. She was living in Ghana as a Fulbright scholar, studying Islam, and she began to have dreams.
“I had one dream where I was standing […]

Totally awesome site - Muslim Video - streams a variety of islam oriented television and radio stations, as well as playing back taraweeh prayers from Mecca. The husband was very happy to find Qur’an Radio - Egypt on the site.
Definately a good site to have handy to play during iftars, throughout the month of Ramadan […]