By now, you probably know that Ismailis Rise Up aims to build a movement that bring thousands of new Ismaili voters into the arena where we fight for and advocate for the change we need. Our campaign’s next step is to develop a targeted plan to mobilize Ismaili voters this…

A conversation with IRU’s Deputy Campaign Manager for Florida on identity, responsibility, and activism in the Ismaili community. Recently, Ismailis Rise Up (IRU) sat down with IRU-trained political organizer and recently appointed Deputy Campaign Manager for Florida, Narmin Jivani. …

By: Sanobar Valiani- Ismailis Rise Up, Social Media Manager Solastalgia. In a newfangled play titled Love in the Time of Climate Change, Rozina Kanchwala articulates the dread that many millennials are facing as a result of the current climate crisis. She grounds the main character’s emotional state in the word…

By: Zubair Merchant, Director of Organizing It’s been seven months since the historic 2020 election, and yet, it remains all that I think about in the days since. Sure, I was very happy with the headline-level outcome: we saved our democracy from the grips of a President wholly uninterested in…

April 14, 2021 Last night I drove 20 minutes from my home to Brooklyn Center. I left my house at 7 pm, knowing there was a 10 pm curfew, and planning to come home before it started. I didn’t know the curfew had been changed to 8 pm until it…

Ismaili Rise Up is centering the voices of Ismaili Minnesotans witnessing the continued acts of police violence on display in their home state. These acts of violence come one year after the police-killing of George Floyd, which sparked a conversation and reckoning within the Ismaili Muslim community in the U.S…

IRU Editor, Maheen-Naaz Ukani, on her experience living at the intersection of disability status, Ismailism, and American politics. Through the power of storytelling, Maheen hopes to foster a collective sense of empathy––within and outside the Ismaili Muslim faith community in the United States––for the experiences of disabled persons trying to…

Ismailis Rise Up launched in July 2020 to activate and build the political power of the U.S.-based Ismaili Community. Building on our 2020 work to register and turnout a historic number of first-time Ismaili voters, and our 2021 work to call almost every Ismaili voter to participate in the Georgia…

In the wake of yet another racism-fueled deadly attack on persons of Asian descent–this time in Atlanta, GA–IRU community members released the following statement: The AAPI community has experienced different forms of racism over the decades. …