Islam

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

 
By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
Resistance

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
On Technology

Living My Life as the “Muslim Ron Swanson” in the Age of Digital Surveillance

By Aisha Abdel Gawad  June 9, 2023
Cultural Identity

An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

By Omer Aziz  April 13, 2023
Protest

“No Veils, No Oppression!” Watching From a Distance As Women Fight for Freedom in Iran

By Sahar Delijani  January 27, 2023
Writers in Conversation

Susanne Pari on Iran’s Rich History of Feminist Rebellion

By Jane Ciabattari  January 3, 2023
Decolonialism

Tilted Towards Liberation: Tanaïs on Rejecting Western Constructs, in Writing and in Life

By Helen Betya Rubinstein  February 24, 2022
Islam

On the Push and Pull of Muslim Cultural Identity

By Omar Mouallem  September 30, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Obama Era Redux: Nawaaz Ahmed on Islam, Sexuality, Politics, and Publishing His First Novel

By Fiction Non Fiction  August 26, 2021
Keen On

Juan Cole on the Complexities of Muhammad

By Keen On  July 21, 2021
Islam

The Consequences of Speaking Out Against Religious Illiberalism in Malaysia

By Mustafa Akyol  June 22, 2021
Keen On

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Immigration Reform and Assimilation in Europe

By Keen On  May 17, 2021
Jazz

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

By Richard Brent Turner  May 4, 2021
Keen On

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

By Keen On  April 19, 2021
Persian Literature

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
Travel

In Search of the Muslim
Community of Ladakh

By Medina Tenour Whiteman  January 7, 2021
Colonialism

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

By Alan Mikhail  December 17, 2020
Reading Lists

Queens In-Between:
6 Revelatory Books on Drag

By Amrou Al-Kadhi  July 27, 2020
In Memoriam

Celebrating Yahya Hassan,
Poet, Rebel

By Jamal Mahjoub  June 22, 2020
Islam

The Long History of Blaming the Devout During a Plague

By Alan Mikhail  June 15, 2020
Fascism

The Graveyard Talks Back:
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
New in Nonfiction

How Extreme Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Entered American Life

By Zahra Noorbakhsh  July 15, 2019
Tragicomedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
Profile

Leila Slimani Doesn’t Care If
You’re Uncomfortable

By John Freeman  April 29, 2019
Muslim women

Reading Women Talk Laila Lalami
and Tahereh Mafi

By Reading Women  April 17, 2019
Essay

Oceanic Feeling, After Christchurch

By Melody Nixon  March 22, 2019
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