[“What Did You Just Say?“, MuslimMatters’ new column, is a space for people to respond to corporate media and its shills. Our voices are often muzzled...
Are Muslims dangerously flirting with the conservative right? This is the question Wajahat Ali asks – and answers in the affirmative – in his recent New...
The Muslim social commentator, Wajahat Ali, recently (June 23, 2023) penned an op-ed in the New York Times entitled, We Muslims Used to Be the Culture...
The Arab Spring of 2011 was a pivotal moment that shook the foundations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Egyptian Revolution, in particular,...
“Why did they put that on him? I don’t like it….Ugghh….Why?”, grumbled my collaborator during an academic meeting about our research project last week. He was...
The Muslim community in the West has to carve out its distinctiveness beyond the narrow social and political debates in society. Speaking at the annual US...
UAE-based preacher Ali al-Jifri has long been a vocal supporter for Egypt’s military dictatorship, despite its mass atrocities.
When the Supreme Court overturned a Maine law that barred students from using state tuition assistance to attend private religious schools, critics of the decision cried...
A Protest in the Prophet’s Mosque A powerful event of peaceful protest happened two weeks ago (April 28) in Saudi Arabia at the Prophet’s mosque –...
Throughout my career as a Muslim civil rights attorney, I have worked on areas of common concern with my Jewish neighbors. Together, we have advocated for human rights...
