Traces Magazine press release:

HELP PRODUCE

Traces

A North American Muslim Year-In-Review

 Dar al Islam needs your help to produce Traces, an annual review of Muslim contributions to North America, events of significance for Muslims, and the development of the Muslim community in North America. The emphasis of the annual publication will be to report what happened, with analysis playing a secondary role. Volunteers will monitor events in their area of interest, and then write a brief summary for the annual publication. Collaboration on the project will be primarily on-line, through a section of IslamAmerica.org accessible only to contributors.

 Choose an area or areas of interest from the list below, or add an area not on the list. Contact Anas Coburn at info@islamamerica.org with the word "Traces" in the subject line. Let us know your area of interest, and we'll get started.

-Muslim Organizations and their area of responsibility

-Muslim response to legislation

-Muslims and the Executive Branch

-Muslims and the Legislative Branch

-Muslims and the Judicial Branch

-Muslims and the Military

-Muslims and Labor

-Muslims and Civil Liberties

-Muslims and Politics

-Muslims and the Academy

-Muslims and the Media

-Muslims and the Law

-Muslims and Film

-Muslims and Interfaith

-Muslims and Publishing

-Muslims and Think Tanks

-The State of Muslim Publications

-Muslim Media

-Muslims and Foreign Policy

-Other

 See the full interview with Dr. Sulayman Nyang and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on IslamAmerica.

More about Dar al Islam

 Dar Al Islam is an American non-profit educational organization incorporated in New Mexico in 1979. Our main Objective is the presentation of Islam to the people of North America from the Primary Sources as understood and interpreted by God-fearing scholars of Islam through out the ages. A simultaneous objective has been a demonstration and education about effective ways of living Islam and being Muslims in North America.

 To satisfy these objectives, we have operated or fathered a large number of successful educational programs over the last 27 years. Some of these are:

• Dar Al Islam Teachers Institutes have been teaching North American educators about Islamic worldview and how to teach about Islam in their respective Schools. The Highlands University of New Mexico provides three units of credit at the graduate studies level for those educators attending the Institutes who desire them. Indiana University has also approached Dar al Islam about providing credits at the graduate level to Institute participants.

• A pioneering workshop on developing Islamic school curriculums was held.

• A full time school for Muslim children was operated for five years in order to develop a prototype curriculum and operational methodology.
  A seminal conference, called "Beyond Schooling: building communities where learning really matters," was sponsored at which hundreds of Muslim teachers met together for a week to critically evaluate the current status of Islamic Education.

• A Tarbiyah Project was launched to transform Muslim schools from teaching mere facts to developing the character of their students into vibrantly thinking and active Muslims.

• Educational programs, called Deen Intensives, were started for young educated Muslims to teach them more deeply about their religion from well-qualified, dynamic teachers.

• Conferences, called North American Muslim Pow-Wow, were run for a number of years to bring together and energize Muslims born in North America who often do not go to the large conferences that are dominated by recent immigrants.

• We host Youth Camps and Women. Retreats at our facilities and support the educational work of many other Muslim organizations whose objectives parallel ours.

Visit our website: http://www.daralislam.org