FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Hanaan shahin | History Defined

The 'Day of Jihad' That Never Came

One year ago, political figures spread a false terrorism panic that made everyone less free—and incited violence against a child.

Reason · Oct 7, 2024

Father of Palestinian boy stabbed 26 times files wrongful death lawsuit against alleged killer

Oday Al-Fayoume, father of Wadea Al-Fayoume, filed the lawsuit last month against Joseph Czuba, 71, over the October attack

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2023

Illinois man charged with hate crime in fatal stabbing of Muslim boy, attack on mom

Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of his mother Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14.

WEKU · Oct 31, 2023

Mother of Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death asks for ‘prayers for peace’

Hanaan Shahin, 32, was stabbed a dozen times in the vicious attack, allegedly carried out by her landlord Joseph Czuba

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023

Illinois mother recuperates after Palestinian American boy killed in attack police call a hate crime

A Palestinian American woman whose 6-year-old son was killed in what police are calling a hate crime in a Chicago suburb is asking the public to “pray for peace” as she recuperates from her injuries

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023

Mother of slain American-Palestinian boy, 6, is released from hospital

Hanaan Shahin, 32, was stabbed a dozen times in the vicious attack on October 14

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2023

Chicago religious leaders urge peace after killing of six-year-old Muslim boy

Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders shook hands, talked and prayed together after killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume

The Guardian - US · Oct 22, 2023

‘An all-American boy’: Classmates mourn six-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death

Friends and family hold vigil for Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian American boy killed in an alleged hate crime in Illinois

The Guardian - US · Oct 18, 2023

Funeral-goers mourn the death of a 6-year-old boy killed in an anti-Muslim stabbing

Authorities have charged Joseph M. Czuba with murder, hate crimes and other charges. One Muslim leader said the stabbing was an attack "on all of us."

WEKU · Oct 16, 2023

Funeral in US for Palestinian-American boy killed in suspected hate crime

Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, was killed by a man police say targeted him because he was Muslim and Palestinian American.

Al Jazeera · Oct 16, 2023