A team comprising Muslim and Hijabi students from Cairo University has won first place in the international Enactus World Cup held in the US for their project in producing organic pads, Enactus.org wrote. The Enactus World Cup, which is held in Silicon Valley, offers social enterprises and student social entrepreneurs the opportunity to win a …

A Singaporean father’s worry about his girl going to a Baptist college quickly vanished after the school authorities said they were changing the dress code to accommodate his hijabi daughter, World Of Buzz reported. “When Sumaiyah joined the local Baptist College, we were informed that she was the first hijabi student in the middle high …

A young Bangladeshi Muslim man who runs a leather store in Rome, Italy, has been hailed for his honesty after returning a wallet with €2,000 cash and refusing to be rewarded for that, IlmFeed reported. Mossan Rasal was going about his day when he found a wallet on the street on Friday. “The first thing …

A memoir by a teenage refugee boy’s life in war-torn Syria and Iraq, where he escaped to Canada, has won the nonfiction 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Award, CBC reported. In the memoir Homes, 15-year-old Abu Bakr al Rabeeah recounts what it was like to spend his childhood in the middle of a civil war. Homes …

A British play about two Pakistani friends dealing with malicious whispers and microaggressions is coming to Quebec, Montreal by the Silk Road Institute, a non-profit Muslim organization dedicated to promoting cultural arts, CBC News reported. “We thought this is perfect for bringing to Quebec audiences because when they first come into the world of the …