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Muslim Teens Win Award for Best Book |
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 The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook, a guide by teens Imran and Yasmine Hafiz, has been awarded the 2008 Arizona book award for best book in the young adult nonfiction category.
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The True Story of an American Muslim Learning to Fly |
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 Monem Salam is a simple man with a simple dream: to earn his pilot's license. But as a Pakistani American living in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, getting certified as a pilot isn’t just a matter of learning to fly a plane — or is it? Meet Monem and his matter-of-fact wife, Iman, in the documentary film On a Wing and a Prayer, premiering in May on PBS.
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"There is a vast majority you don’t hear from" |
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 By Wajahat Ali, with permission of Altmuslim
Morgan Spurlock’s new film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, might not come to any conclusions about the fugitive’s whereabouts, but it does make the global conversation about Muslims and Islam accessible to all audiences. Atlmuslim interviews the blue-eyed, fair-skinned American (who also directed Super Size Me) after he visited the Middle East to get alternative viewpoints of America’s image.
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Pope Welcomed by D.C.-Area Muslims |
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 One of the nation’s largest mosques welcomed Pope Benedict XVI along with an interfaith network of more than 600 faith communities in the Washington D.C. area.
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