In a panel discussion hosted by the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration(SSA), CAIR-Chicago Communications Coordinator, Amina Sharif, talked to masters students about CAIR-Chicago’s advocacy work and the services it provides to the Muslim-American community.

CAIR-Chicago is proud to announce that Ian Bushner has joined its team as a Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Fellow. Ian graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and following his Fellowship will work as an associate with the law firm Jenner & Block LLP. To read more about Ian click here

Sounds of Faith explores the sacred sound in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, performed by community practitioners at the Rockefeller Chapel in Hyde Park.

“It is not the fact that the Univ. of Chicago invited a pro-Israel speaker that offended so many. Rather, it is Olmert’s criminality that offends. It is the disparity with which the university treated its affected students that offends. It is the way in which they assured us that all views would be given a platform, and yet blatantly repressed the point of view of one group of people, that offends. And for this they must, at the very least, apologize,” says Christina Abraham.

Christina Abraham talks to Al-Jazeera about the University of Chicago’s inappropriate invitation of war criminal and former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.

Despite an abysmal record on human rights, he has been invited by the University’s Harris School of Public Policy, as a leader with a vision of “achieving prosperity through peace.” CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham will address the hypocrisy of this invitation at a press conference outside the event. Also read CAIR-Chicago’s Action Alert regarding this issue,
HERE.

Olmert was prime minister during Operation Cast Lead in which Israel Defense Forces killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and wounded more than 5,300. Olmert is also responsible for implementing the siege on Gaza, now well into its third year. The siege has plunged more than 80 percent of the population into abject poverty.

Upon invitation by President Robert Zimmer of the University of Chicago, CAIR-Chicago commemorated the life and accomplishments of the late Dr. Amadou Cisse at the 492nd Convocation Ceremony held at the Rockefeller Chapel. Gerald Hankerson, Outreach Coordinator of CAIR-Chicago, attended the ceremony.

Amadou was shot and killed on the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago early Monday morning.

The University of Chicago Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students is partnering up once again with the Chicago Office of the Council On American-Islamic Relations to present the second installment of “Understanding Islam in the Modern World.”