by Hayat Imam I join all my friends in the fury and outrage we feel at the killing of yet another Black man at the hands of the police. I come to two conclusions, both pointing to conditions that are unacceptable and must be challenged. […]
by Hayat Imam Remarks at the Standout for Black Lives organized by Dorchester People for Peace, September 25, 2020 This event has been organized by Dorchester People for Peace. We hold Black Lives Matter Standouts once a month, and, over the past years, we have […]
by Hayat Imam I have written at length to honor Ed Markey’s long years of efforts on our behalf. His opponent, the young Joe Kennedy, has no policy platform to speak of and nothing to say against Ed Markey, except where Markey spends most of […]
In her pointedly hard-hearted statement on September 19, 2017, about the ethnic cleansing perpetrated on its Rohingya population, Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi stated that her country is not “afraid of international scrutiny.” What Suu Kyi, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace […]
Remarks delivered at the Boston Women’s March for America, January 21, 2017 YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL, STRONG AND POWERFUL OUT THERE! Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim; Salam Aleikum! I start with words of peace because we are sorely in need of peace and harmony! We are in […]
“Our security in this country depends on advancing the shared security for all…” This is the theme for the 2016 Walk for a New Spring by the Monks and Friends of the New England Peace Pagoda. For the past 15 years this group has walked […]
Remarks by Hayat Imam delivered at Welcome Refugees – War is Not the Answer vigil, December 10, 2015, Boston Common. More photos Fifty years ago, along with millions of other immigrants in our history, I too came to these shores as a young Muslim woman. […]
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