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CAIR-Chicago offers a wide range of internship and volunteer opportunities targeted at developing new professional skills while nurturing existing personal strengths. The Fall 2016 session is here and we are looking for talented applicants to join our team!
Civil Rights, Communications, Government Affairs, Outreach, and Operations Interns are an integral part of our work fighting bigotry and promoting tolerance. We are proud that our internship program not only allows participants to engage in social change but also provides a unique and rigorous career development experience. LEARN MORE >>
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Our Promise
Bookshelf Project
We audit stores and libraries to ensure accurate references are distributed.
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Civil Rights
CAIR-Chicago’s extensive work and advocacy has a direct impact on preserving civil rights of American Muslims – relief for the victims, improving policies to accommodate religious practices and eliminate discriminatory measures, and empowering individuals and institutions to protect their rights.
Media Relations
CAIR-Chicago organizes press conferences and issues dozens of press releases and media advisories annually to ensure that Muslim perspectives on vital issues and current events are represented in the mainstream media.
Community & Government Outreach
CAIR-Chicago aims to educate and build bridges between Muslims and diverse communities, establish partnerships with other organizations, and bolster CAIR-Chicago’s ability to serve its constituents in Chicago’s Muslim communities.
Why CAIR-Chicago?
CAIR-Chicago is the only specialized, full-time organization in the city of Chicago working to represent the Muslim community in the courthouse and the newsroom, that is in the legal arena in terms of its civil rights, and on the airwaves in terms of its public image.
Mission
To defend civil rights, fight bigotry, and promote tolerance.
Vision
To attain equal opportunity for,and normalize the image of, Muslims in America.
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Hoda Katebi
Communications Coordinator -
Phil Robertson
Trial Attorney -
Tsedenya Bizani
Operations Coordinator -
Gerald Hankerson
Outreach Coordinator -
Ahmed Rehab
Executive Director -
Sufyan Sohel
Deputy Director
CAIR-Chicago’s team is a dedicated group of staff, interns, and volunteers. We are committed
to being active in our communities and accessible to the people we serve.
Click here to read bios, meet our Board, and our Interns!
The Issues
We advocate and educate against bigotry, hate and prejudice targeting Muslims on the mere basis of their faith.
There is no media conspiracy, but selective and/or de-contextualized reporting that conflates aberrational representations of Islam/Muslims with the normative ones contribute to public “miseducation”.
“The best way to fix our image, is to fix our reality.”
Islamophobia
Media Bias
Representation
Rahm Emanuel
Mayor of Chicago
Dick Durbin
U. S. Senator, Illinois
Toni Preckwinkle
Cook County Board President
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CAIR-Chicago 2005 Documentary
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CAIR-Chicago 2007 Documentary
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CAIR-Chicago Documentary 2008 – American Muslim Self Definition
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CAIR Chicago Documentary 2010 – Unapologetic Activism
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CAIR Chicago Documentary 2011
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CAIR-Chicago Documentary 2012: A Future Without Bigotry
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CAIR-Chicago Downtown Office
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CAIR-Chicago: FORWARD – 2014 Film
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Faith and Ramadan
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CAIR-Chicago: IMPACT – 2015 Film
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CAIR-Chicago Inspired by #ScienceWoman Anousheh Ansari
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