A more menacing type of control involves the use of malware against opponents. Two months after Khashoggi’s murder, in December 2018, a friend of Khashoggi’s, Omar Abd al-Aziz, a Saudi exile living in ...

While we are celebrating Black History Month, I thought I would write about the history of Muslims who came to the United States. Enslaved African Muslims brought Islam to the United States in the ...

Sayyid Hashim Mosque Sayyid Hashim Mosque is the third historical mosque that was partially destroyed by the Israeli occupation army in its ongoing war on Gaza. The mosque is located in the Al-Daraj ...

Muhammad Ali, center, in procession from Market House with local Muslims on May 4, 1991. The man in the front on the far right is Adam Beyah, who at the time was the imam of Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid ...

Today, the Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid mosque in Fayetteville bears his name. Said was eventually claimed as property by James Owen of Bladen County (brother of N.C. Gov. John Owen), and he spent the ...

In 1831 Said wrote his autobiography, "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," which is likely the only autobiography written in Arabic by an enslaved person. It inspired the Pulitzer-winning opera.

A spellbound audience celebrated Islamic Heritage Month by watching a one-man play about "The Life and Times of Omar ibn Sayyid" at America's Islamic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center in southeast ...

This was Dr. Yolanda Pierce's response to the significance of Omar ibn Sayyid. She loved how he kept his Muslim faith even after having to come to America. (Created in Canva by Anna Hair) ...