Zainab bint Younus writes a book review of Dr. Usaama al-Azami’s “Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy,” which examines the role...
I recently got the chance to chat with Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, Rifk Ebeid. Rifk has worked with various human rights organizations on media...
In 2021, MuslimMatters hosted the Muslim Bookstagram Awards to celebrate and uplift Muslim voices in literature. We interviewed the judges of the awards to get their...
A very happy Eid to all of our readers! We pray that Allah has blessed us all immensely and forgiven our sins this past Ramadan, ameen!...
As we ramp up our Ramadan preparations, many of us are also trying to choose which books are going to accompany us throughout the sacred month...
This year marks 20 years since the notorious US-run Guantanamo Bay detention facility was opened by President George W. Bush in response to the so-called ‘War...
More and more Muslim authors are being published by mainstream publishers, which is a double-edged sword; on one hand, we have more diversity and #ownvoices stories,...
As MuslimMatters.org was hosting the 2021 Muslim Bookstagram Awards, we also recorded a special mini-series of podcast episodes with each judge. Our second episode features Kirin...
Women’s history is human history: a simple enough statement, and yet, when we flip through the majority of history books, women’s stories remain glaringly in the...
“Better, Not Bitter” by Dr. Yusef Salaam is the autobiography of one of the Exonerated Five: five young men (four of them African American, one of them...
