Given the current dearth of American Muslims and other minorities in policy spaces, AMI & Georgetown MSA organized a panel of American Muslims involved in the think tank space. The panel’s aim was to provide insight into the role in which graduate Muslim students can play in influencing domestic and international policies. The panelists shared their own […]
AMI sponsored an essay contest asking American Muslim high school students to write an essay of no more than three hundred words on how to empower American Muslim youth in the field of media, journalism, advertising and/or activism. The top seven essays won a half day trip tour of different media and advertising institutions, including […]
AMI Board member Dr. Sahar Khamis, Sr. Laila Muhammad and Imam Carlos Muhammad discussed the crucial role Muslim women played in history, recent and distant. Dr. Khamis spoke of the importance of overcoming and shattering stereotypes as a Muslim women reflecting on her own career and experience. Imam Carlos and Sr. Laila both spoke of […]
AMI hosted a fundraising dinner keynoted by Mehdi Hasan, an award winning British journalist. The program was filled to capacity with over ninety people in attendance. The aim of the evening was to empower and support American Muslims to tell their stories and celebrate their successes. The evening began with an overview by Dr. Aquilur […]
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2017. – American Muslim Institution (AMI) is outraged and shocked by President’s Trump’s latest tweets repeating and promoting the racist and widely vilified group, “Britain First” and its agenda of falsehood and lies. The three videos re-tweeted by President Trump that appear to show Muslims engaged in hostile acts have either […]