I’ve always found the concept of owning a sports team unsettling. What exactly does one own in a team? When it comes to basketball, the fact that most...
Muslims. Dance-off. I didn’t think I’d live to see those two things juxtaposed. But what’s happening on both sides of the Atlantic seems to be just...
The lunacy which has dominated the discourse coming out of Quebec over the last year has finally been countered with a dose of sanity. In a...
What started three years ago as anti-government protests has spiraled today into a bloody civil war with no end in sight. The brutal conflict has claimed...
Shaykh Abdal Aziz al-Lamti, born around 880 AH, was a noted Moroccan scholar and grammarian. Qurrat al-Absar is his beautiful poem describing the entire life of...
Going abroad to study Arabic is one of the best ways to learn the language. With a vibrant culture and a rich intellectual heritage, Morocco is...
The collapse of Rana Plaza, a garment manufacturing complex in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 workers, sent shockwaves around the globe this past April. Just a few...
The political discourse in Canada over the past few weeks has been dominated by Quebec government’s proposal for a secular ‘Charter of Values’, put forth by...
‘La illaha il Allāh, Muhammad rasool Allāh…” a man repeats Islam’s testimony of faith with the Imam on the first day of Ramaḍān. The congregants cheer ‘Allāhu...
As horror stories of another massacre in Syria trickled in last week, western governments initiated their textbook game of diplomatic ping-pong. Condemnations were issued, outrage expressed...
