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CAIR-Chicago Holds Community Forum on Comprehensive Immigration Reform at Mosque Foundation
CAIR-Chicago Government Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed and Staff Attorney Bitta Mostofi held a community briefing on comprehensive immigration reform, along with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Mosque Foundation
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator Speaks on Panel at Columbia College
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham spoke on a panel at Columbia College in Chicago, addressing the students of a course entitled “Human Rights: History, Ideology and Spin
CAIR-Chicago Attorney Represents Muslim Woman in EEOC Mediation
CAIR-Chicago Attorney Rima Kapitan represented a Muslim woman in a mediation session with the EEOC. The woman's hours were reduced immediately after she began wearing a headscarf (hijab).
CAIR-Chicago Speaks Out for Comprehensive Immigration Reform at Press Conference
CAIR-Chicago Government Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed spoke out in favor of comprehensive immigration reform
CAIR-Chicago Attorneys Represent Clients in Two Citizenship Delay Status Hearings
CAIR-Chicago Attorneys Heena Musabji and Bitta Mostofi represented clients in status hearings for complaints filed in federal court regarding citizenship delays
CAIR-Chicago Attorney Represents Citizenship Delay Client in Update Interview
CAIR-Chicago Attorney Bitta Mostofi represented a client experiencing citizenship delay in an update interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Two Citizenship Delay Clients Become Naturalized
Two clients in CAIR-Chicago’s Citizenship Delay Project were naturalized after long delays in obtaining their citizenship.
WISE TV: Civil Rights Coordinator appears on WISE TV (WYCC-PBS)
CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Coordinator, Christina Abraham, recently appeared on WISE TV (WYCC-PBS) where she discussed the state of American Muslims Civil Rights on the Northwestern News Networks program, Medill Reports, with host Tanja Babich.
CAIR-Chicago Attorney Represents Client in Status Hearing for Citizenship Delay
CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Heena Musabji represented a client in a status hearing for a citizenship delay.
The Electronic Intifada: Suppressing critics of Israel: The campaign against Norman Finkelstein
In recent weeks a considerable amount has been written and said about Norman Finkelstein's bid for tenure at DePaul University. As most academics are aware, it is unique for a tenure decision, something that is an inherently internal process, to be subject to external discussion.
CAIR-Chicago Receives 2007 Grant from Chicago Bar Foundation
For the second year in a row, CAIR-Chicago received a grant in 2007 from the Chicago Bar Foundation for its civil rights work on behalf of the indigent Muslim community in Chicago
CAIR-Chicago Attends Investing in Justice Program
CAIR-Chicago's Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham and Staff Attorney Heena Musabji attended the "Investing in Justice" program
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator Speaks at Islamic Foundation School on Malcolm X Day
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator spoke at the Islamic Foundation School in Villa Park for Malcolm X Day
CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Presents at DePaul Legal Clinic
CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Heena Musabji presented at the DePaul College of Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic training titled, “Newer Practitioner Training on Basic Immigration Topics.”
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator Participates in Teaching Constitution to Students
CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Coordinator, along with attorneys Abdullah Salah and Abdul Karim Pigott, participated in the “Lawyer in the Classroom” program
CAIR-Chicago Files IDHR Complaint After Three Middle Eastern Men were Kicked-Out of McDonalds
CAIR-Chicago Volunteer Attorney Rima Kapitan filed amended charges of discrimination with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR).
Conviction Reversed and Remanded in Cab Driver Case
A judge reversed and remanded a conviction against a Muslim cab driver for traffic violations that led to the suspension of the cab driver's chauffeur license.
Employment Discrimination Issue Resolved
A Muslim man was chosen to be laid off from work, despite his superior education and work experience to other employees who were not laid-off.