Brothers Yunis and Owais Omeira of the Northern Virginia based Al-Fatih Academy attend virtual classes (Photo (c) Hazim Omeira)
The Challenge and the Relief
How Islamic schools and the Islamic Schools League of America rode out the pandemic
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BY FAWZIA MAI TUNG
or everyone, but especially for Islamic schools, the year 2020 was like no other. In the Quranic spirit of “So surely with hardship comes ease; surely with hardship comes ease” (96:5-6), I spoke with Dr. Seema Imam, chairwoman of the Islamic Schools League of America (ISLA; https:// theisla.org/) and professor of elementary middle level teacher preparation at National Louis University, Chicago, about the challenges Muslim educators and administrators faced during the pandemic and how they rode out the storm.
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