I. The Old City Should I lie to an Israeli soldier in order to be allowed to pray? This was a theological dilemma I never studied in Sunday school, one I never thought I would have to confront. Anxious and on edge, the soldier was standing in front of me, rifle...

Rida Mushtaq is a student of Fine Arts from Fatima Jinnah Women’s University. For her thesis display, she decided to do something exciting, something people don’t usually venture into… Source: Rida Mushtaq Rida redesigned Pakistan’s currency notes and brought her artistic flair to the project. Her motivation for this project...

It’s tough to write a coherent play about confusion. How do you dramatize a muddle without making a muddle? That’s the daunting task the first-time playwright Hammaad Chaudry has set for himself in “An Ordinary Muslim,” which opened on Monday at New York Theater Workshop. A timely look at the traumas of...

As Women in Translation Month rolls on, Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg looks at the women who seem to have disappeared in scholarship about the Arabic popular epics: By Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg A recent Twitter thread by medievalist Erik Wade, in which he describes fighting against bias and erasure in medieval sources, made me...