https://halalmetropolis.org/home daily 1.0 2023-05-10 https://halalmetropolis.org/the-project daily 0.75 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/a5625922-379d-4cc2-847c-752dc1b7cbd5/mojay.jpg ABOUT - Mohamad Jaafar In his role at the Center for Arab American Philanthropy, Mohamad Jaafar spotlights moving stories of Arab American giving and supports Arab American donors with their strategic giving journeys. Mohamad highlights Arab American and Muslim American history and contributions through his multimedia work at the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1587503100050-JCCW26SGO48N72ACQENB/HM-03.png ABOUT - Sally Howell Sally is Professor of History and Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her books include Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade (2011), Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past (2014), and Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging (2022). Howell's current research is about the political and cultural impact of Muslim visibility in metro Detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594619866015-P2VPRPA06D3Q4DWFY7TZ/image-asset.png ABOUT - Fatima Al-Rasool Fatima Al-Rasool is the Public Programming Coordinator at The Arab American National Museum and has been with the organization since January 2021. Fatima has developed a wide variety of public programs from the ground up, reaching thousands of audience members. She previously held a role at the Center for Arab American Studies at University of Michigan-Dearborn where she coordinated research-based exhibition projects centering the voices of local community members. Fatima is proudly from the community she serves, and believes in the power of representation in the arts and humanities. She holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594755305269-BQBUXJL0QZ646VK73B7U/asma-03.png ABOUT - Asma Baban Asma Baban joined the Halal Metropolis team through the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, first as a research assistant then as a project manager. A big fan of interdisciplinary studies, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor in General Studies. She currently works at the Institute for the Humanities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1587503171482-ZT5IKBDB5AJ1X47VKEEQ/HM-02.png ABOUT - Osman Khan Osman is an artist interested in constructing artifacts and experiences for social criticism and aesthetic expression. His work plays and subverts the materiality behind themes of identity, home/land, social and public space through participatory & performative installations and site-specific interventions. He is currently a Professor at theStamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1587503650243-VR6EO7L1HK0PIPJGIC8D/HM-01.png ABOUT - Razi Jafri Razi is a Detroit-based documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on ethnicity, religion, culture, immigration, democracy, and the changing cultural landscape in America. He is currently completing a documentary film examining the complexities of Multiculturalism through the lens of the city of Hamtramck’s 2017 municipal elections called “Hamtramck, USA.” He is also the photographer for the Halal Metropolis project and has been documenting the Muslim communities of Metro Detroit for several years now. https://halalmetropolis.org/ramadan-lights daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763851621-6YDWT48VXEFOVO0QNS2Q/100597277_2616959688561167_1031555319483858944_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763831184-19UHMQM4J9EXUHVWW9ZP/100893443_2616959631894506_7911376488476180480_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763630972-I515X80GT0BWC9VANK97/101114325_2616959151894554_4794417644008636416_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763628803-97EWHLZL3UY6FCQY0TLI/101560519_2616959048561231_6025096894399643648_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763730722-WGJDIFZ1VVBEQJYX4B5L/100740909_2616959505227852_2515588007696793600_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763727359-3O6EM1AELEYEVGEMB9P7/100953542_2616959435227859_3648821953449426944_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763487461-PGSUUCNMJ673H8EUYAGH/1408+Salina+Street+%281%29.JPG Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590763489922-IHNYAQEBWHXLELP2UG5B/100843785_2616959251894544_9026846161729748992_o.jpg Ramadan Lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1590519526702-755CL52B7NDD2YAOKI9Y/unnamed.jpg Ramadan Lights https://halalmetropolis.org/zoom-in daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://halalmetropolis.org/fence-mural daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594605953223-ED7CK11J9IKKOGKXKQ83/46743efb-2507-4d11-ad5a-9815b3c29299.jpg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594607394802-XS02EKB65QFLLYOAMMUU/IMG_7911.jpg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594656017324-D1RQENJIFC6VQLAW3U48/image-asset.jpeg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594607245076-E1P2AYYGR6JAIDC2QU36/IMG_7899.jpg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594607499979-9ZC0C1NDDJLQ4ANLA1ZO/IMG_7916.jpg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594607215302-GKOXP49F6HND1Q8WEGHG/IMG_7905.jpg Fence Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594656174483-HGY63IGXUAHP4T0VL8CV/Screen+Shot+2020-07-13+at+11.58.45+AM.png Fence Mural https://halalmetropolis.org/detroit-indus-detroit daily 0.75 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/8055aead-f372-48a0-a753-2d8ac4a91529/HM+Detroit+5x7+card.jpg Detroit - Indus Detroit - Detroit Indus Detroit June 21 - July 31, 2019 The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely, and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically by all of the region’s inhabitants and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It requires Muslims to organize and speak, as believers, citizens, and artists. Detroit began to take shape as a Halal Metropolis over a century ago when the first Muslim communities moved to the area for work in the booming auto industry. They opened their first mosque in Highland Park in 1921, established the Nation of Islam in 1930, and organized the state’s oldest mosque, the American Moslem Society in Dearborn in 1938. Today there are over 90 mosques in the tri-county area representing communities with roots in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the American South. Metro Detroit has also been home to two of the nation’s first Muslim representatives in the United States Congress, the first Muslim American judge, the first Muslim American mayor, the first Muslim majority city council, and the first Muslim majority city. Mosques and Muslim political leaders have long attracted attention to Detroit’s Muslim communities as have the region’s entrepreneurs and artists, service providers, athletes and engineers. Somehow Muslim visibility is both pronounced and extremely present in the city, while never becoming an integral part of the larger narrative of the region. In this first iteration of the multi-part Halal Metropolis series, we focus on the past, on the experiences of African American Muslims, and on the work of Muslim artists in order to consider what is it that makes, and has made, Detroit’s Muslims so very visible over the last century. When and why are Detroit’s Muslims visible? To whom? At what cost? What are the threads that link current and past representations of Muslim Detroiters into one narrative? 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Fashion Influencers Lisa Vogl, Rahaf Khatib, and Melanie Elturk We speak with a trio of hijabi fashion influencers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/d5fc23e3-fe40-4208-8695-c764ffe23052/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+9.09.57+PM.jpg Dearborn - Culinary Pioneers Ibrahim Alhasbani, Ronnie Berry, Jeff Mallad, and Abbas Ammar We speak with the food pioneers of Dearborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/582788b0-dddd-4054-aa3b-5803665f1b99/Dearborn_card.jpg Dearborn - Dearborn Stamelos Gallery University of Michigan - Dearborn January 17 - April 3, 2020 The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely, and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It encourages Muslims to organize and speak as believers, citizens, and artists. Nowhere is this halal metropolis more prominent than in Dearborn, where halal restaurants and the hijab are ubiquitous and the state’s oldest and largest mosques are located. Arab and Turkish Muslims began working at Ford’s Rouge factory and moving to Dearborn before the city was incorporated in 1929. A small minority at the time, they opened their first mosques in its shadow in the 1930s. When US immigration laws changed in the 1960s, these mosques welcomed new arrivals from the Middle East and South Asia and inspired them to build their own mosques across the metro area. Today there are 11 mosques in Dearborn and 96 in the tri-county area. Yet the halal metropolis has its greatest impact outside these mosques. This was first seen in the coffee houses and groceries that provided Dearborn’s Arab immigrants with a taste of home. The first halal butcher opened in Dearborn in the 1950s, and the culinary scene has never looked back. No longer limited to Lebanese restaurants and bakeries, the halal scene in Dearborn now includes Iraqi, Yemeni, and Syrian cuisine, and highly innovative bistros, patisseries, burger joints and hotdog stands. The hijab did not become common in Dearborn until the 1980s, but today it is worn by police officers, school superintendents, high school athletes and judges alike. Neighborhood hijab shops now compete with national chains, and local designers are at the fore of the global Islamic fashion industry. Many non-hijabis also signal their faith with tattoos, car decals, jewelry, architectural design, and the full range of aesthetic practices. With so many Muslim communities sharing space in Dearborn the desire to stand out – or to blend in – is intense. Yet while Dearborn’s Arab community has long been the most visible Muslim population in the US, it has struggled to achieve effective political representation. Only recently has the city sent an Arab American to the state legislature, or seen an Arab majority City Council. The community is better represented in appointed positions than elected ones. Yemeni and Iraqi voters are also eager for the Lebanese establishment to share its limited power. Islamic holidays also make Dearborn distinctive. The flags and parades of Ashura are difficult to miss in some neighborhoods, as are the twinkling lights of Ramadan when night and day switch places for a month and piety and consumerism compete with one another for the true meaning of the season. What could be more American than this? In this fourth iteration of the Halal Metropolis series, we focus on Dearborn to consider what makes, and has made, Detroit’s Muslims so very visible over the last century. When and why are Detroit’s Muslims visible? To whom? At what cost? How do artists help shape this narrative? How do you? Participating Artists: Amna Asghar Nour Ballout Adnan Charara Kecia Escoe Anthony Giannini Razi Jafri Endi Poskovic Reem Taki Maamoul Press Special Thanks: Ali Al Joum, Ahmad Ali, Abbas Ammar, Ronnie Berry, Nasser Beydoun, Sam Beydoun, Susan Dabaja,Elizabeth Karg, Jeff Mallad, Suzanne Sareini, Salah Sarhan, Batoul Shatila,Matthew Stiffler, Arab American National Museum, Bentley Historical Library https://halalmetropolis.org/hamtramck daily 0.75 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600909146559-SPRKBDLGGRNZBXGMHNM9/PHOTO-2020-07-10-14-43-21%252B2.jpg Hamtramck - Muslim Cool Su’ad Abdul Khabeer and Sohail Daulatzai We explore the intersection of Islam, hip-hop, and pop culture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599177048083-1B5L371WRCDMVZV3KFZL/IMG_4021.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595262975032-X728NSSL0FEH41JBCRU7/IMG_8950.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595262858460-ZSBE9MO0UXQSQWONGAPH/IMG_8953.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595262519764-UOAAZTRNHI12VFJB59N2/IMG_8952+%281%29.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1594608572402-YD1BQWCBVMZJQI9XM72P/IMG_8949.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600909094938-GXS1WU09DN9A2O5FO4WP/PHOTO-2020-07-10-14-43-21%2B2.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595262679113-IJTXLTR9ON3Z4WDH8EU3/Bank+Suey+Resized.jpg Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770700879-NCWAGWN382Q43LCZ3NSB/IMG_3476.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770495363-N12SKBW41G4U18PSC47M/HalalMetropolis_Hamtramck_4.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770502920-FH8S0EF8RAD759ME4FG8/HalalMetropolis_Hamtramck_9.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770504522-H1DRT4H98509FGWMMG4E/HalalMetropolis_Hamtramck_10.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770745356-Q79ZL0S1BTN6XL4Z92OI/IMG_3463.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770504789-47V4AYQO1IZ6UJN55ZBI/HalalMetropolis_Hamtramck_11.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683771029250-MQ1451X4MGGNCHF2VO6X/IMG_3428.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770784624-N87WQ745OCT1APV5D50R/IMG_3433.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770664954-PS5TQU6313MXCFQGQ20W/IMG_3434.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770620567-6QVCHZ5Z2ZA4N0Y0BDYS/IMG_3417.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770669628-EH5VUFK2ZFN86QPJ2RP7/IMG_3456.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770651240-GGFCI95G4BNDL3QFD3SX/IMG_3429.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770725849-SEKPNLS37OXAYAHPCAR5/IMG_3477.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770999626-SN3IUFXFS7D1PF7PY16J/IMG_3421.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770637899-LLGRXX3H200CJ1XEMLD8/IMG_3420.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683770836686-0204XMAG7MQBKQWEIQM1/IMG_3479.JPG Hamtramck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/82074e7a-d2b2-4366-957b-935097f08a2a/Hamtramck+card.jpg Hamtramck - Hamtramck Bank Suey August 30 - September 28, 2019 The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely, and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically by all of the region’s inhabitants and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It encourages Muslims to organize and speak as believers, citizens, and artists. Greater Hamtramck began to attract Muslims in the 1960s, mostly Indian and Pakistani graduate students at Wayne State University and their families, but the pace really picked up in the wake of the destruction of Dodge Main and Poletown. A small congregation of Yemeni autoworkers whose mosque and homes were displaced by the wrecking balls purchased a Polish American funeral home just south of Hamtramck in 1984 and began to re-establish themselves in the area. Today Masjid Mu`ath Bin Jabal is one of the largest and most dynamic mosques in the region. Bosnian refugees joined this mix in 1999 when they were invited to relocate to the city by then Mayor Gary Zych to help stave off white flight. They were followed by a migration of Bengali Americans who had previously settled in Queens, New York. As the Polish and Ukranian populations moved elsewhere, Muslim immigrants were attracted by the city’s small, walkable scale, by its affordable real estate, and by the growing visibility of one another. The first municipality in the country to have a Muslim majority population and a Muslim majority City Council, Hamtramck has attracted global attention. The hyper visibility of its many mosques, halal businesses, and distinctive cultural practices make it a frequent backdrop for the dystopian fears of anti-Muslim activists and the dreamy optimism of multiculturalists alike. As we hope to show in this exhibition, the reality lies somewhere in between these extremes. In this second iteration of the multi-part Halal Metropolis series, we focus on the history of Hamtramck’s Muslim communities, on the city’s political struggles, and on the Muslim body in order to consider what is it that makes, and has made, Detroit’s Muslims so very visible over the last century. When and why are Detroit’s Muslims visible? To whom? At what cost? How do artists help shape this narrative and what is the future of halal in Hamtramck? Participating Artists: Amna Asghar Nour Ballout Zarinah El-Amin Naeem Anthony Giannini Razi Jafri Osman Khan Maamoul Press Mary ‘BGIRL MAMA’ Mar Endi Poskovic Haleem ‘Stringz’ Rasul Special Thanks: Bank Suey, Alissa Shelton, Caniff Gift & Variety, Best Deals Furniture, Queen of Sheba Fashion, Festive Essentials, The Hamtramck Historical Museum, Justin Feltman https://halalmetropolis.org/howell daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/f03a11f8-2d64-474e-9c96-7fe55960099f/Howell+card.jpg Howell - Howell Arthur Secunda Museum Cleary University November 8 - December 20, 2019 The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely, and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It encourages Muslims to organize and speak as believers, citizens, and artists. In contrast to the hyper-visible communities of Dearborn and Hamtramck, the Muslims of Livingston County live in relative obscurity. Halal restaurants and grocers in Brighton and Fenton suggest the presence of Muslim consumers in both the center and periphery of the county. Medical facilities in Brighton and engineering centers, like the GM Milford Proving Grounds, also hint that Muslim professionals reside nearby. Mosques in neighboring East Lansing, Flint, and Ann Arbor, have long welcomed Livingston residents, and the community of the Naqshbandi Spiritual Retreat Center, which opened on a small farm just south of Fenton in 1991, is growing and investing in homes nearby. Frequently, Muslim communities in suburban and exurban settings become visible only when their plans to build mosques, establish summer camps, or develop graveyards, are met with opposition. This was true in Canton, Troy, and Sterling Heights, just as it was here in Livingston County. Resistance to the Naqshbandi Center quickly melted away when their lodge and mosque finally opened and they were able to get to know their neighbors. Many of the county’s Muslim residents were born to non-Muslim parents. Their love of the outdoors, of fishing, hunting, riding, and cross-country skiing, did not dissipate when they donned the hijab or began praying five times a day. Those who moved here to be near work, near a spiritual retreat, or far from the noise and expense of the city, also continue to pursue their individual passions, often for the same American pastimes as their neighbors. Given Livingston County’s profile as a mostly rural, exurban space, can we think of it as part of the Halal Metropolis at all? In this installation, we connect the visibility of the Muslim body and of Muslim institutions in greater Detroit to that of Muslims living and worshipping in more rural areas. Is this the future of Islam in Michigan? Participating Artists: Anthony Giannini Endi Poskovic Haleem ‘Stringz’ Rasul Kecia Escoe Maamoul Press Mary ‘BGIRL MAMA’ Mar Nour Ballout Qais Assali Razi Jafri Sawsan Elgamal Zarinah El-Amin Naeem Special Thanks: Cleary University, John Sauve, Naqshbandi Spiritual Retreat Center, Mike Ayoub, Zahrah tul Madina, Rahaf Khatib, Shaykh Taher Siddiqui https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599177271373-YRCYGVACZA6PZSA4PD96/IMG_0314.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263177279-RMYRPVLVDI6Y3V9A2NLY/IMG_0317.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263163203-ES6VLMXAU08T14AH9YUC/IMG_0320.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263206883-KDS0FXPZVP7X9F85Y851/IMG_0315.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263313494-RHUQQQUEPRH2H17DB8HJ/IMG_0324.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263108408-OOBWOOO1BYB7EGESQ7TB/IMG_0326+%281%29.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1595263264056-ZRVPALZPXWWT014SIO1C/IMG_0329.JPG Howell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600910419073-3AQPBIV2OHRGEPQU3O72/DSC_8895.jpg Howell - Muslim Visibility in Livingston County Jenn Crooker, Rima Makhiawala, and Ali Hussain We explore what it means to be Muslim in a rural, exurban place. https://halalmetropolis.org/images daily 0.75 2020-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599177048083-1B5L371WRCDMVZV3KFZL/IMG_4021.jpg Images - Hamtramck Bank Suey August 30 - September 28th, 2019 View opening night photos here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599181041113-MPR6WV28D4P8ERG4TD4G/EHXT9184.jpg Images - Dearborn Stamelos Gallery Center January 17 - April 3, 2020 View opening night photos here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599181124656-5RE3MMEW4HHCR564650X/Screen+Shot+2020-09-03+at+7.44.31+PM.png Images - Detroit Indus Detroit June 21 - July 31, 2019 View opening night photos here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599235332857-FIUYBISYT10GYC216NOZ/Copy+of+Ramadan+House_15.JPG Images - Ramadan Lights Greater Dearborn May 2020 View winning houses here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599235027141-IWQB6G34KJA1H9BWKNEN/DSC_0446.JPG Images - Fence Mural Detroit June 21 - July 31, 2019 View photos here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1599177271373-YRCYGVACZA6PZSA4PD96/IMG_0314.JPG Images - Howell Arthur Secunda Museum November 8 - December 20, 2019 View opening night photos here! https://halalmetropolis.org/muslim-cool daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://halalmetropolis.org/muslim-visibility-livingston-county daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://halalmetropolis.org/culinary-pioneers daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://halalmetropolis.org/conversations daily 0.75 2024-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625965259468-3F5L68NZGGWROZCOPTMU/Screen+Shot+2021-06-17+at+7.01.29+PM.png Conversations - Culinary Champions This Gallery Talk features three highly celebrated chefs in Detroit who bring a new way of presenting halal food to new audiences: Chefs Omar Anani (Saffron De Twah), Warda Bouguettaya (Warda Pâtisserie), and Mamba Hamissi (Baobab Fare). View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/5a797d87-4676-476d-86fa-337dcf0b25cd/Screenshot+2024-02-01+at+9.36.14+AM.png Conversations - Detroit Artists Talk With Anthony Giannini, Mary ‘BGIRL MAMA’ Mar and Parisa Ghaderi. View Videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600909146559-SPRKBDLGGRNZBXGMHNM9/PHOTO-2020-07-10-14-43-21%252B2.jpg Conversations - Muslim Cool Su’ad Abdul Khabeer and Sohail Daulatzai We explore the intersection of Islam, hip-hop, and pop culture. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625964044819-S2BYP241BGACXF4RH39Y/GT%2BHalal%2BHoliday.jpg Conversations - Innovating the Halal Holiday We explore the creative ways that local Muslims are innovating holiday practices with Hassan Bazzoun of Artistic Element (@aeprint313), Hassan Chami of the Ramadan Suhoor Festival (@ramadanfoodfestival) and Chef Sal Sarhan (@thechefsal). View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625965292765-H69CKOX7UR8CKE7C48PU/Screen+Shot+2021-06-10+at+6.56.52+PM.png Conversations - Halal Metropolis Artists Amna Asghar, Adnan Charara, and Endi Poskovic discuss the motivations and aesthetics of the artwork they have contributed to this installation. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600910419073-3AQPBIV2OHRGEPQU3O72/DSC_8895.jpg Conversations - Muslim Visibility in Livingston County Jenn Crooker, Rima Makhiawala, and Ali Hussain We explore what it means to be Muslim in a rural, exurban place. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625964002667-U4AKS1SUDLK4TLYEP8JI/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-25%2Bat%2B6.58.24%2BPM%2B%25281%2529.jpg Conversations - Food Innovators Zane Makky (Brome Modern Eatery), Mirna Hamade AlTayeb of Dearborn) and Ali Houssaiky (Kings Bakery) sharing with us how they're innovating the Halal food scene in Dearborn! View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/30ae6c39-8ddc-4182-b92f-d859b4376243/Screenshot+2024-01-31+at+7.21.57+PM.png Conversations - Hamtramck In Perspective We explore the recent trajectory of Hamtramck, Michigan with Sally Howell and Farhana Islam. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600909856550-EXCGVXCO02TD5Y75RGOR/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-23%2Bat%2B9.09.57%2BPM.jpg Conversations - Culinary Pioneers Ibrahim Alhasbani, Ronnie Berry, Jeff Mallad, and Abbas Ammar We speak with the food pioneers of Dearborn. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/f63af046-9261-4eeb-b5a9-9574564d973a/Screenshot+2024-01-31+at+7.15.54+PM.png Conversations - Halal Metropolis Team A conversation with Halal Metropolis curators Osman Khan, Sally Howell and Razi Jafri. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625963649953-ZHGJCLXD9DAZB72O9H0E/Screen+Shot+2021-04-01+at+6.59.37+PM.png Conversations - Behind the Podcast Zahra Huber (Breaking Pita with Zee), Yasmeen Kadouh (Dearborn Girl Podcast), and Jermaine Carey (Good Vibes with the Good Brothers) share their paths to podcasting and the visibility they bring to the Muslim narrative. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625965438179-L0Q7H2W6US0AE3HO99PD/Screen+Shot+2021-06-24+at+7.04.26+PM.png Conversations - Campus Campaigns A conversation on the power of student activism within the university system with Anis Rahman, Jumanah Saadeh, and Zeina Reda View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625963932468-J3DPVMK2TH8YSJ1JKOXV/IMG_9091.jpg Conversations - Activists and Advocates With Hanan Ali Yahya, Namira Islam Anani, and Mark Crain who are their wisdom and experience on using activism to reach a more just world! View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/8c6028d2-2c52-45c9-a11b-cabb5f514100/Screenshot+2024-02-01+at+1.08.27+AM.png Conversations - Food Influencers With print & audio storyteller Nargis Rahman (@nargisthewriter on Instagram), food guide Abraham Obeid (@halalfoodjunkie on Instagram), and food guide Fred Sareini (@fsareini on Instagram) View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1600909564729-BNKNCOP5LP0F0P91S576/DSC_0510%2B%25281%2529.jpg Conversations - Fashion Influencers Lisa Vogl, Rahaf Khatib, and Melanie Elturk We speak with a trio of hijabi fashion influencers. View videos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1625964762126-PEO04QD8SZ5TZEOA5WM0/Untitled+design+%2835%29.png Conversations - Muslim Feminist Futures We explore the work of Muslim women at the fore of feminism’s future with Arts & Culture Organizer Piper Carter, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Saima Mohsin, and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib! View videos here. https://halalmetropolis.org/fashion-influencers daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://halalmetropolis.org/halalfoodinfluencers daily 0.75 2024-01-30 https://halalmetropolis.org/podcast daily 0.75 2023-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1654053769018-2CMHTLIMBX9E9YIZ1UP5/file-spotify-logo-png-4.png Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1654096212696-NX1CBXOQ82QIV4ALLNFR/unnamed.jpg Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1654095944040-V1DETI0U1W9GVF7SYNSE/5f675b163b3c2a0004655704.png Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1654096349125-RWVWC8DW7DVO7XNGSZSS/Podcasts_%28iOS%29.svg.png Podcast https://halalmetropolis.org/exhibition daily 0.75 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/bef437a3-0df8-4b84-9925-0648b8e2a4a0/HM+Scarab+Club+postcard+final.png Exhibition - Detroit Scarab Club July 28 - Aug. 28, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/a555332d-f73f-45bd-85ea-ae48293c4171/HM+AA+postcard_Page_1.png Exhibition - Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery May 28 - July 17, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/485af011-83d0-4623-a3f9-b95928007172/Hamtramck+card.png Exhibition - Hamtramck Bank Suey Aug. 30 - Sept. 28, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/f62847cd-5d53-497d-83c5-b2b30c60ada8/Dearborn_card.jpg Exhibition - Dearborn Stamelos Gallery Jan 17-Apr 3, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/9aae1df8-32a2-43f4-8c61-3929f3eef02f/Howell+card.jpg Exhibition - Howell Arthur Secunda Museum Nov.8 - Dec 20, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/06dbbdaa-d972-4fbe-b324-81859069f552/HM+Detroit+5x7+card.jpg Exhibition - Detroit Indus Detroit June 21 - July 31, 2019 https://halalmetropolis.org/holidays-celebrations-1 daily 0.75 2022-12-02 https://halalmetropolis.org/stories-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/bf216966-8857-4b99-ad39-15dfe8e59ac4/story1.jpg Stories - Arab Americans Adapt Homes for Growing, Changing Community In Michigan, immigrant families have created a distinctive custom of converting their basements and garages into social spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/f874d4b9-bc35-4466-83ee-ee9de9916d13/story3.png Stories - Halal Foodways Halal (ritually slaughtered) food is one of the most popular vehicles Muslim Americans have for sharing their culture with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/aea13973-3b21-4762-a63e-ef977213ca45/story2.png Stories - Holidays & Celebrations Islamic holidays have long contributed to the visibility of Detroit's Muslims, but in recent years this phenomenon has accelerated rapidly. https://halalmetropolis.org/story3 daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://halalmetropolis.org/detroit-scarab-club daily 0.75 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/260ebc8d-6550-49b0-a490-673a2121c7ab/HM+Scarab+Club+postcard+final.jpg Detroit - Scarab Club - Detroit Scarab Club July 28 - August 28, 2021 Halal Metrop­o­lis explores the facts, fic­tions, and imag­i­nar­ies of the Mus­lim population(s) in Detroit and South­east Michi­gan as viewed through his­tor­i­cal research, doc­u­men­ta­tion of cur­rent con­di­tions, and explo­rations of future desires. The Halal Metrop­o­lis alludes to the estab­lished and grow­ing Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion in Detroit and its metro area, one of the largest and most diverse Mus­lim pop­u­la­tions in the U.S., whose vis­i­bil­ity is both pro­nounced and extremely present in the city, yet whose nar­ra­tive seems unusu­ally silent in the larger Detroit story. Detroit began to take shape as a halal metropolis over a century ago when the first Muslim communities moved to the area for work in the booming auto industry. While Dearborn and Hamtramck are the most vibrant Muslim enclaves in the region today, there are over 100 mosques in the tri-county area representing communities with roots in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the American South. The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It encourages Muslims to organize and speak as believers, citizens, and artists. Muslim artists reflect on how the region and their identities interact and shape their concerns and aesthetics. The exhi­bi­tion blends archival mate­ri­als, social and polit­i­cal arti­facts, pho­tog­ra­phy, and art to explore the con­gru­ent and con­tra­dict­ing ideas, aes­thet­ics, and cul­tures work­ing to make the halal metrop­o­lis both a real and imag­i­nary entity. Participating Artists: Amna Asghar Qais Assali Nour Ballout Adnan Charara Kecia Escoe Parisa Ghaderi Anthony Keith Giannini Razi Jafri Osman Khan Mary ‘BGIRL MAMA’ Mar Maamoul Press Endi Poskovic Haleem ‘Stringz’ Rasool Reem Taki Special Thanks: Liela Abbas and family, Asma Baban, Ronnie Berry and Sons Halal Meats, LuFuki Ismaeel Dhul-Qarnayn, Zarinah El-Amin, Mohamad Jaafar, Rahaf Khatib, Jeff Mallad, the Muslim Center of Detroit, Saad Wholesale Meats, Catherine Sareini, Shatila Bakery, and Sky Furniture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775235266-DK6JCGIHWJOS7D783IWL/DSC_0551.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775235343-3R0DLEVABQG03FQ4FM6S/DSC_0552.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775246222-1X0TBOTJGCO17KDVZ83N/DSC_0573.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775276398-89ATG400O6QAF4072LT3/DSC_0593.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775245388-YGNOQ7NT9IU67CP9XJME/DSC_0576.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775254961-DS762VLNWG6TRAE4EBP0/DSC_0578.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775255733-CHY96JNBSU0E03XJTC23/DSC_0584.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775265973-J38KFF876HR4WO9A2ZLS/DSC_0588.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775266106-JGPG0V6RNW8DLVCEQ70G/DSC_0590.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683775275200-7PZAD2Y7GY7E5IJN7P64/DSC_0592.JPG Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774948960-EGXOGIHFZRQZYF235O85/IMG_6549.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774938760-A72M08L1DQ49ZZKCIUDC/IMG_6495.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774941426-H258QLVQ2WO5DM424YTJ/IMG_6497.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774943839-NKSGF47AALLW7HKUK1NG/IMG_6501.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774938820-ANMJZ9BBPP68ISYRKF31/IMG_6494.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774946054-X4QZKB62MBG9BPP656QS/IMG_6504.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/1683774947860-GGD9XEH712UVHPX501UE/IMG_6546.jpeg Detroit - Scarab Club https://halalmetropolis.org/story1 daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://halalmetropolis.org/ann-arbor daily 0.75 2023-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd09e635798cd000190ba29/d48636e9-5c1d-4485-a724-bf71abcf6afb/HM+AA+postcard_Page_1.jpg Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor Stamps Gallery, Stamps School of Art & Design University of Michigan May 28 - July 17, 2021 Halal Metrop­o­lis explores the facts, fic­tions, and imag­i­nar­ies of the Mus­lim population(s) in Detroit and South­east Michi­gan as viewed through his­tor­i­cal research, doc­u­men­ta­tion of cur­rent con­di­tions, and explo­rations of future desires. The Halal Metrop­o­lis alludes to the estab­lished and grow­ing Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion in Detroit and its metro area, one of the largest and most diverse Mus­lim pop­u­la­tions in the U.S., whose vis­i­bil­ity is both pro­nounced and extremely present in the city, yet whose nar­ra­tive seems unusu­ally silent in the larger Detroit story. Detroit began to take shape as a halal metropolis over a century ago when the first Muslim communities moved to the area for work in the booming auto industry. While Dearborn and Hamtramck are the most vibrant Muslim enclaves in the region today, there are over 100 mosques in the tri-county area representing communities with roots in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the American South. The Halal Metropolis is one where Muslims practice their faith freely and contribute to society with all of their talents and commitments. It is created dialogically and requires Muslims to be visible to one another and to non-Muslims. It encourages Muslims to organize and speak as believers, citizens, and artists. Muslim artists reflect on how the region and their identities interact and shape their concerns and aesthetics. The exhi­bi­tion blends archival mate­ri­als, social and polit­i­cal arti­facts, pho­tog­ra­phy, and art to explore the con­gru­ent and con­tra­dict­ing ideas, aes­thet­ics, and cul­tures work­ing to make the halal metrop­o­lis both a real and imag­i­nary entity. 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