A group of Muslim charities have joined forces to support drought-affected Australian farmers. The Brisbane-based charity Muslim Charitable Foundation (MCF), together with Muslim Aid Australia and the Islamic Council of...
A group of 70 young professionals from 17 countries split evenly between Muslims and Jews recently came together in Essaouira, Morocco for an inaugural conference on Muslim-Jewish relations. The conference...
The Sahel region stretches like a wide belt across Africa’s northern midriff. It is a 3,860-km semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land that marks a transition from the...
My book The Case Against Jihad has just been published, aptly on the anniversary of 9/11. This may seem rather a late repudiation of the hateful ideology behind those attacks, but it remains...
THIS WEEK, AS the world marks one year since the beginning of the Rohingya exodus – one of the most critical refugee crises of our times – images of helpless refugee...
In the world of adults, the Supreme Court has upheld a travel ban from some mostly Muslim nations, and refugee arrivals from Syria as well as other Middle East hot spots have slowed...
He raised his hand, ready to assert what he considered his right in a male-dominated society where the husband’s word is final. She was an accomplished police detective feared by...
English-language genre writing from Bahraini authors is a growing phenomenon. Mohamed G. Darwish talks about why he was drawn to writing fantasy in English, and what role it plays on...
Any contemporary novelist who takes on themes of Islamic identity and jihad in their work risks being labeled a political writer. But for Elnathan John, a debut novelist from Nigeria,...
Akbar Ahmed’s journey to explore Islam across Europe began in a crowded parking garage in Athens in 2013 that was serving as a makeshift mosque hosting over 400 members of the...