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MSA hosts second annual bazaar for small businesses
On Thursday, April 23, 2026, the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosted their second annual bazaar, a place for Muslim students and alumni to create financial opportunity within the community. Vendors ranged from crochet arts, coffee, press-on nails and digitally made calligraphy art. Yasmin Kotb, a sophomore information science major, was a…
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“Your disregard is visible”: UMD community members advocate for greater support, transparency for Nyumburu Cultural Center
Safiyah Fatima contributed reporting to this story. Chanting “say it loud, I’m Black and proud” and “Psyche stays,” more than 50 students walked from the Nyumburu Amphitheater to the Thomas V. Miller Administration Building on Wednesday in demand of increased student involvement and care from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) administration and UMD’s office of…
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Students gather to commemorate Palestinians displaced during Nakba
A partition decorated in phrases such as “To exist is resist” and “UMD Divest Now” stood tall on McKeldin Mall as students painted olives, Palestinian flags, and resistance slogans on kites and banners. More than 50 students gathered for the Nakba remembrance event organized by the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Students for Justice in Palestine…
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Students rally outside Smith school event, call for an end to “normalizing genocide”
A Palestinian flag caught the wind, waving in the air as protestors chanted, “No normalization, we demand liberation” outside the Robert H. Smith School of Business on the evening of Tuesday, April 21 in opposition to a panel event held by the school featuring various speakers to discuss how to promote dialogue, with a secondary…
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Over 100 community members gather for SJP ‘Falasteen Forever’ event celebrating Palestinian culture
Vibrant red tatreez patterns on attendees’ thobes and black-and-white keffiyehs filled the colony ballroom as over 100 guests gathered to attend the Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) Falasteen Forever fundraiser event. Falasteen Forever was an event to showcase the work SJP did all semester and raise awareness on Palestinian struggle and culture, according to…
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USM students charge Board of Regents with complicity in genocide at People’s Tribunal, call for divestment
By: Sumaya Abdel-Motagaly As the last student finished testifying during the public comments period of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents meeting, students in attendance collectively stood up and began chanting “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.” Holding up signs reading “USM you have blood on your hands”…
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‘When Sudan bleeds, we all bleed’: UMD students mark three-year anniversary of war, genocide in Sudan
By: Rumaysa Drissi and Sumaya Abdel-Motagaly Content warning: this article contains mention of sexual violence. Sudanese flags stood upright, lining the grass across the borders of Hornbake Plaza. Chalk messages, calling for an end to the war and demanding more attention to the conflict covered the stone ground. To commemorate the third year since the…
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UMD Muslim student launches matcha pop-up
As sisters in the UMD Muslim community gathered after midnight for worship and remembrance in the musallah, the Muslim prayer space on campus, the new matcha pop-up Btween Sips held its first event at the UMD MSA’s Sisters’ Qiyam Night. Yasmin Kotb, the sophomore information science major who founded Btween Sips in February, turned her…
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Turkic students’ club builds community, bridges cultures
Although Sarvinoz Nabiyeva noticed a large Muslim community at UMD, she felt like it was still important to meet some people from the same background as her. Nabiyeva, whose family is from Uzbekistan, and Hadija Yahya, who is Uyghur, both shared this sentiment. “The idea of being able to share a part of us with…
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From 2017 to 2025, here’s a history of divestment bills for Palestine at UMD
DISCLAIMER: Riona Sheikh serves as the Executive Vice President of UMD’s student government from 2025-2026. Over the last decade, hundreds of students on this campus have gathered to pray for Palestinian people killed by Israel and protest the University System of Maryland’s investments in weapons manufacturing companies and other institutions supporting Israel. After almost eight…