The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
Introduction ‘What is the point of having a sophisticated knowledge of law if you can’t dignify the rights of others?’...
A little over two years ago, I attended my first ever Al-Maghrib event: IlmFest. Today, fittingly, IlmFest will be my last Al-Maghrib event for quite a...
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after President Obama told an audience in Cairo that America wanted a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, evidence of that...
By Anon: Cross-posted from AE The Tablighis, easy target for criticism, Attacks against them launched with cynicism, Politically unaware, intellectually docile, Painted by some as simplistically...
The right-wing blasted off into the outer realms of sanity by fearmongering about the Missile Defense Agency’s decision to revamp its logo from this: To this: Free...
A Sign of Empire Pathology: More US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action Here is a shocking statistic that you won’t...
Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hawara awoke on Wednesday to find a blue star of David painted on the outside of their mosque, after...
Setting the stage Tariq Ramadan is a big draw wherever he speaks, whatever the topic. It’s not surprising, then, that his first ever speaking engagement on...
For those who are not acquainted with the city of Tarim: It is one of the main cities in the southern Yemeni province of Hadramout. It...
By Hena Zuberi The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), fast approaches. This year it will take...
It’s official: according to none other than this journal of record, the 12-year old child “left outside a house in Karachi [on Sunday, April 4, 2008]...