The month of Ramadan is something like a spiritual Olympics in the Islamic calendar. Through the physical demands of fasting and a plethora of opportunities for supererogatory devotional practices, ...

In my book, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11, I discuss my surprise at finding an increase in positive portrayals of Arabs and Muslims after 9/11. To be more specific ...

I worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign from June 2015 until the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As part of the campaign, I spent time working in South Carolina, New ...

One response in particular is quite alarming. It was created by Karim Metwaly, the founder of the popular YouTube channel AreWeFamousNow. The video, titled “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman in ...

Luxor, Egypt — Her house is little more than a nude brick building. It has three floors and an open roof that could have been converted into a pleasant terrace, but she never had enough money to carry ...

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Bassem Youssef, dubbed Egypt’s version of Jon Stewart, is off the airwaves yet again. After coming back from a nearly four-month hiatus, Youssef’s latest season ...

When President Donald Trump announced his administration’s long-awaited policy toward Iran this month, including his decision to decertify the nuclear deal, the “America First” president sought to ...

Devan Hawkins is a freelance writer from Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications including the Boston Globe, Radical Philosophy, and the website of the Antipode Foundation ...

The author is a former firefighter and supervising fire marshal with the New York City Fire Department who responded to Ground Zero on 9/11. He was one of several Muslim Americans profiled in the PBS ...

Of all the potential catastrophes awaiting us in the coming Trump era—from the rescinding of the Paris Accords on global climate change, to the overturning of the affordable care act, to a re-vamping ...

Donald Trump is now the President-Elect of the United States of America. The election outcome shocked people around the world for a range of legitimate reasons: polls that skewed heavily in favor of ...