Staff Blog
Reaffirming the Values that Guide Our Work
By Maha Elgenaidi, founder and Chief Innovation Officer March 23, 2021 In the past several days, we have learned that ING’s participation at a recent California Department of Education board meeting —where the adoption of a model ethnic studies curriculum, the first of its kind in the… Read More
ING founder Maha Elgenaidi’s comments at the California State Board of Education on the model curriculum on ethnic studies
By Maha Elgenaidi, founder and Chief Innovation Officer March 18, 2021 Good morning. Thank you State Superintendent Thurmond for the invitation to speak with you all today. Based on AB 2016, we are very happy to see the first version of the ethnic studies model curriculum being voted… Read More
Liberals Should Listen to Muslim Voices Instead of Those Who Speak for Them
By Maha Elgenaidi, founder and Chief Innovation Officer February 19, 2021 Islamophobia is essentially an instrument of colonialism; an instrument that was used historically to subjugate the colonized by portraying them as barbarians or primitives needing civilizing, or in the present day, to suppress Muslim populations in… Read More
Black Muslim History is American History
By Rahimeh Ramezany, Program Manager “And among the signs of God is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and colors. Indeed, in that are signs for those who know.” (Qur’an 49:13) Greetings of peace, On May 25, 2020 an… Read More
Providing Generation Z the Structure to Discuss Faith
By Tabassum Haleem, CEO February 5, 2021 Teachers are in the privileged position of being trend watchers, historians and even agents for social change. Year after year, they work with a different cohort of students for an entire semester, maybe even a year. They have a front… Read More
Virtuous Activism: Friday Reflection for ISNA
By Maha Elgenaidi, founder and Chief Innovation Officer January 22, 2021 This speech was delivered online to audiences at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) on Friday, January 22nd, 2021. View the recording on YouTube. Bism Allah ar-Rahman ar-raheem. In the name… Read More
Does the Muslim American Community Have a Problem with Intra-Muslim Racism?
By Maha Elgenaidi, Executive Director. It’s hard for a community that feels under siege from Islamophobia to admit that it has a problem with racism and bigotry within its ranks; it’s hard, but necessary. Our Muslim American community must be united to respond effectively to bigotry directed against… Read More
Muslim-American Maha Elgenaidi On Advocacy And Experience
Muslim, a new online magazine and an off-shoot of the popular MuslimGirl featured ten prominent Muslim figures who have made an impact within the Muslim American community for their publication launch in the month of Ramadan. One of them is ING Executive Director Maha Elgenaidi featured below. Read More
Sheltering the Spirit During COVID-19
By Ameena Jandali, ING Content Manager, Henry Millstein, Content Manager and Program Analyst, and Bat Sheva Miller, ING Speaker. The coronavirus is taking a toll not only on Americans’ bodies but also on their minds and spirits. A recent study revealed that alcohol and cannabis sales are… Read More
Statement from the Executive Director on COVID-19
What an interesting time we live in! It is astonishing to me how something as miniscule as the COVID-19 virus, which is visible only through an electron microscope, can turn our world upside down as it has. As a Muslim, I am reminded of the Quranic verses… Read More
