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Can’t Take It With You – A Landmark Muslims in America Photo Exhibit

MR — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:19:19 +0000

Interesting article about a Muslim photographer:

Never before have I seen my community photographed with such dignity and hope . Omar Mullick, an award winning photographer who shoots for National Geographic, NY Times, etc., has traveled all across America for 7 years documenting the elusive Muslim American community.

The photography will be on display at GalleryFCB Thursday, October 8th at 6:00 pm. The gallery runs for the entire month, but please join us at the opening of this historic exhibit. RSVP on the Facebook Event if you can.

Omar has given me the permission to showcase a handful of photos here at Boing Boing.

More images and info after the jump.

The first time I saw the photos I wondered why Omar chose black and white. Looking through the gallery statement on the site, I found my answer:

At a time when President Obama used the example of American Muslims in his Cairo address to indicate that Islam had “always been a part of America’s story…” the exhibit presents a culmination of one photographers deliberate effort to take the visual language of black and white 35mm photography, through which 20th Century America has often looked at itself, and open up that narrative to include the latest birth pang in American cultural life. To that end, Can’t Take It With You, which was pursued with singular purpose by a photographer deeply engaged with the idea of what it means to be American, promises to be one of the more important visual documents of the young 21st Century.

The photo I leave you with is of a Muslim women’s shelter in Philadelphia, PA. It was the children’s first day at the shelter. I wonder where they are now.

I will be doing a tiny interview with Omar Mullick at the end of the week, if anyone has a question they feel compelled to ask please write it in the comments and I’ll try my best to get it answered.

Visit the Can’t Take It With You site – www.galleryfcb.com

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Ramadan 2009 Pictures from “The Big Picture”

MR — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:32:47 +0000

Really beautiful pictures from across the Muslim World during Ramadan 2009. Click here to see them. Related posts: MR’s Online Qur’an Reading Contest Ramadan 2009/1430 Massive Construction in Makkah (2007 pictures) Ultimate Jihad and Sabr in Palestine – Picture of Israeli throwing wine on Palestinian Woman

Powerful pictures of the suffering of Muslims in China

MR — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:54:52 +0000

Tursun Gul, a local Uighur woman on a crutch, shouts at Chinese armored personnel carriers and soldiers wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi on July 7, 2009. (REUTERS/David Gray)

Tursun Gul, an ethnic Uighur woman, faces off with Chinese paramilitary police in Urumqi, China on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Gul, along with a crowd of Uighurs behind her, was shouting at the soldiers to return their men – Gul’s husband and four brothers were arrested the day before, along with over 1,400 others.. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

May God protect the innocent. Ameen! May God reward our sister in Islam, Tursun Gul for all her good deeds and may God have mercy on her. Ameen!

The second picture makes me feel like she is saying to her self, “La ila ha ilallah”.

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Child Labor in Bangladesh

MR — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:59:57 +0000

When your at work or school or doing something and you feel the need to complain remember this picture and think of all our little brothers and sisters working in such terrible conditions just for a $1 a month.

May Allah grant them all jannatul-firdaus! Ameen.

Click here to see more photos.

Layla Khalil, 57 of Iraq and Parveen Ali, 26, of Pakistan – Vicitims of the Binghamton Shootings

MR — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:52:29 +0000

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajoon.
From God we came and to God we will return to.

May Allah (swt) grant them jannah-tul-firdaus. Ameen.

Source: New York Times

The photos of Mecca you don’t see on walls

MR — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:40:40 +0000

Welcome to New Mecca City: