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‘A spiritual reboot’: Muslims on campus begin observance of Ramadan

Isa Sheikh | Wednesday, April 6, 2022

On Friday night, the beginning of the month of Ramadan was announced based on the sighting of the new moon. Earlier in the day, professor Mahan Mirza emphasized the spiritual importance of the month in a sermon delivered during Friday prayers to Muslim members of the Notre Dame community. Ramadan, the ninth month of the

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‘I’m all covered up, but I’m still beautiful’: Fulbright language teaching assistant delivers lecture on hijab

Liam Price | Thursday, November 18, 2021

Hagar Hodeeb, a Fulbright language teaching assistant from Egypt, delivered a lecture about women and the hijab in the Arab world on Wednesday afternoon in the Spes Unica building at Saint Mary’s. Editor’s Note: Hodeeb is a photographer for The Observer. Hodeeb set out to educate her audience on what the hijab means to Muslim

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Don’t impose your religion on me

Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Last week, fellow columnist Andrew Sveda provided a thorough rebuttal to my claim that religious belief should not influence lawmaking. I am thankful for his engagement but have a few responses that I hope will continue this lively discussion in an amicable manner. Sveda ends his column asking, “Are we christian Conservatives or conservative Christians?”

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Klau Center hosts speaker on Islamophobia

Trinity Reilly | Monday, September 14, 2020

The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights hosted Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in Washington D.C., to speak about Islamophobia on Friday as a part of their Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary lecture series. The weekly series, held on Zoom, features different guest speakers every week

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Saint Mary’s Fulbright grantees discuss experiences in Malaysia, Mongolia

Sara Schlecht | Friday, November 22, 2019

Members of the Saint Mary’s community gathered Thursday evening for a panel discussion about Fulbright grants as part of the College’s International Education week. Laura Elder, a global studies professor who specializes in cultural anthropology, has received multiple Fulbright grants and now serves as the College’s Fulbright program advisor. “It’s a program for which all

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Muslim Student Association holds annual Islam Awareness Week

Aaron Benavides | Monday, March 25, 2019

Notre Dame’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) kicked off their annual Islam Awareness Week for 2019 last Saturday. The week is designed to share aspects of the Islamic faith with students across campus, sophomore and MSA president Muhammad Abubakar Mian said. “The main purpose of Islam Awareness Week is really just exposure,” Mian said. “It’s providing

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Lecture explores religious freedom in Islam

Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a self-described “Islamic modernist,” gave a lecture titled “Religious Freedom in Islam” on Tuesday at the Eck Visitors Center, during which he promoted religious tolerance throughout the world. Akyol began the lecture by retelling a recent incident between him

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Professor discusses role of religions in peacekeeping

Sydney Doyle | Friday, February 23, 2018

Kwok Pui Lan, professor of theology at Emory University, addressed the role of religion in peacekeeping processes across the world in as part of the Saint Mary’s Endowed Spring Lectures Series on Thursday. Pui Lan began her lecture by talking about when she met the Dalai Lama 25 years ago, who said everyone has a role to

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Liberalism going global

Devon Chenelle | Monday, November 6, 2017

As IS swept across the Near East, an international consensus emerged: IS and its ideology must be wiped out. Helpfully, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, America’s most pivotal ally in the region, proclaimed that IS and the ideas it represented “are not in any way part of Islam.” The stage for an ideological war

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Visit a mosque

BridgeND | Thursday, January 26, 2017

We are living in a continually polarized and tumultuous political climate here in the United States, with the recent election only furthering divides among citizens and their differing views on a variety of platforms, including religion. With a lack of facts and communication crossing the aisle from either party, all civil discourse around Islam, extremism,

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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