On March 12, 2015, Palestinian American community organizer and women's leader Rasmea Odeh was sentenced to 18 months in prison after an unjust conviction last November, but she is challenging that conviction, and her many supporters have helped her remain free on bond, pending the outcome of her appeal. She is back home to her community in Chicago, and back to her work with the Arab Women's Committee.

Through an examination of the similarities between the WWII incarceration experience of Japanese Americans and the post-9/11 experience of the Muslim Americans, Bridging Communities builds solidarity between these two communities.

Award winning Arab-American comedian, Dean Obeidallah, is coming to Chicago as part of his "Dean for Vice President" tour!

Award winning Arab-American comedian, Dean Obeidallah, is coming to Chicago as part of his "Dean for Vice President" tour!

Many American Muslims encounter workplace bullying - making it important to know your rights so that your career, livelihood, and emotional health will not be compromised.

Many American Muslims encounter workplace bullying - making it important to know your rights so that your career, livelihood, and emotional health will not be compromised.

Zuhdi Jasser claims to be a reliable representative of the American Muslim community, but a closer look tells us he is very far from it.

The details of the NYPD's surveillance program of American-Muslim communities have surfaced and prove its unconstitutionality.

On December 31st, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law - allowing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens around the world.

On December 31st, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law - allowing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens around the world.

Yesterday, the National Defense Authorization Act was received by the White House for President Obama's official signing. Call the White House today and demand a veto!

CAIR-Chicago is urging American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact President Obama and urge him to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R.1540), which authorizes the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens suspected of terrorism without charge or trial.

On Thursday, December 8, civil rights and interfaith leaders held a press conference at the CAIR-Chicago office to condemn the controversial new provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1867) which passed in the Senate last week. SEE PHOTOS

On Thursday, December 8, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), along with other civil rights and interfaith groups, will hold a press conference calling on Congress and President Obama to reject the U.S. Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1867).

Contact your Senators and demand the removal of provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act which will allow the indefinite detainment of American citizens without charging them for any crime or giving them a fair trial.

The film “follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during the last ten days of Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith while they struggle for acceptance in post 9/11 America.“  Watch a  trailer for the movie here: http://fordsonthemovie.com/trailer.php

"Its an embarrassment to our political system," said Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director. "There is nothing wrong with questioning the sources of radicalization, the nature of radicalization. The problem is when he fails to differentiate between the mainstream on one end, who is us, and the extreme on the other end - the many and the few - the community and underground individuals. Failing to distinguish between the two is precisely the problem we are seeing at the hearings."

Christina Abraham, Civil Rights Director at CAIR-Chicago, debates anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer over Rep. Peter King's Islamophobic hearings on "Radical Islam" in America.

Muslim Americans in Chicago call Thursday's hearings embarrassing; Embarrassing to Muslims and Embarrassing to Americans as a whole. The result is America is no better off today than it was yesterday when it comes to representing the intentions and the population of the Muslim people in the United States.