MLTs in the News: Sharaf Mawjood, MLT USA, on the New York Times front page

MLT Sharaf Mawjood's byline appeared recently on page one of the New York Times. The Columbia Journalism student and the Times' Ralph Blumenthal '64 reported on a new Muslim prayer space two blocks from ground zero.

The story features Imam Feisal and the Cordoba Initiative's push to create a scared prayer space near Ground Zero. The article talks about the efforts to build "an Islamic center near the city's most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero's more unexpected and striking neighbors."

We know you will enjoy reading the story below.

"On that still-quiet Tuesday morning, the sales staff was in a basement room eating breakfast, waiting to open the doors to the first shoppers at 10 a.m. ..."

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