Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine...
Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set...
The Gaddafi name shot to international attention again this month with the assassination at his home of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, once the most internationally well-known son...
Every dictatorship eventually collides with a problem it cannot solve by expanding prisons, perfecting surveillance, or laundering repression through emergency laws. That problem is conscience. Not...
An Introduction To Somaliland With Israel’s recent recognition of Somaliland, many in the Muslim world are hearing about the country for the first time. It is...
In 1937, philosopher-poet and perhaps the foremost intellectual of Muslim India, Allamah Muhammad Iqbal, wrote a series of letters to the leader of the All Indian...
In a royal decree, the Kuwaiti government has stripped one of its best-known thinkers, Tariq Suwaidan, of his citizenship. An academic and activist who has published...
There are occasions when state power reveals its insecurities with embarrassing transparency. The United States’ revocation of Dr. Naledi Pandor’s visa — executed without reason, without...
Imam Jamil “Rap Brown” Al-Amin’s passing sparks a powerful reflection on his legacy as a civil rights leader, Black Muslim visionary, and political prisoner whose life...
For the last two years, the world witnessed horrific tragedies in Gaza. Painful images and stories emerged as innocent people were displaced, bombed, maimed, raped, starved,...