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March 2011

March 04, 2011

A changing Middle East: Leaving Saladin behind

Young people across the Middle East rewrite the Arab narrative focusing on the future, embracing...

March 02, 2011

Middle East: Bahrain bleeds for liberty

Despite concerns about Sunni-Shiite tensions and the possible influence of Iran, a free and democratic...

February 2011

February 27, 2011

Congressional radicalization hearings: Putting Muslim Americans on trial moves the US back

The upcoming congressional hearings on radicalization convened by Rep. Peter King will subject Muslim Americans...

February 25, 2011

Black History Month: Reflect and reunite

As we reflect over this sad state of affairs in the Muslim-American community, we must...

February 23, 2011

Food and culture: It’s not the halal you expected

Some allege that the increasing prevalance of halal foods in the West is a campaign...

February 21, 2011

Lara Logan assault: Abuse of women is sadly endemic

Amidst all the euphoria about Egypt's peaceful revolution, the news of CBS news reporter Lara...

February 18, 2011

Books about the Muslim Brotherhood: Who’s afraid of the big bad brotherhood?

Expect instead debate about the Brotherhood to ignite in coming years as Egypt stumbles from...

February 16, 2011

Film "Mooz-lum": “Mooz-lums” have been here for a long time

The new film "Mooz-lum," by writer/director Qasim Basir, might seem preachy at times, but the...

February 14, 2011

The new Egypt: Since when has democracy been the antithesis of stability?

When dictators, whether secular or religious, coercively rule a nation, mass revolt becomes the only...

February 13, 2011

Fall of Hosni Mubarak: Rage against the regime

Photojournalist Ghazala Irshad offers us an exclusive look at the people and protests from Cairo's...

February 12, 2011

Mubarak's fall: The Pharoah has left (and now comes the hard part)

Now that Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has resigned after 18 days of peaceful and persistent...

February 11, 2011

Activism: A civil rights movement for the Muslim world

With the events taking place in Tunisia and Egypt, we have been left with a...

February 09, 2011

Egypt protests: We are all Egyptians now

Egyptians now have a chance to put their pride in their long legacy of monumental...

February 07, 2011

Author Ibrahim Abdul-Matin: “We don’t want to go back, we want to do things better”

Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author of the recently published book "Green Deen," may be fighting an uphill...

February 04, 2011

The new Egypt: What role will the Brotherhood play?

Like it or not, Islamic political parties are part of the political fabric in many...

February 02, 2011

Egypt protests: Change in Egypt will change the region

Egypt has long been the engine of Arab imagination, as well as its intellectual and...

January 2011

January 30, 2011

The greatest alliance: Where’s the Arab world going, and can Israel come?

We need to get out of the mindset that sees religious Muslims as antithetical to...

January 29, 2011

Revolution in Tunisia: 10 lessons from our Tunisian brothers & sisters

The Tunisians, in shaking off a long-standing dictator on January 21, 2011, have inspired the...

January 28, 2011

The Holocaust: An eye-opener at dinner builds understanding

I advise all of us to invite someone to dinner from another community, one that...

January 26, 2011

Indonesia: More to religious (in)tolerance than meets the eye

Reports showing increases in the number of religiously motivated attacks and discrimination in Indonesia against...

January 24, 2011

Islamic art scholar Oleg Grabar: An underrated historian

Oleg Grabar, a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study who died on January...

January 21, 2011

Tunisia turmoil: Dare we hope for democracy?

The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon (2005), the Lawyers’ and Judges’ Mutiny in Pakistan (2007), The...

January 19, 2011

Arizona shootings: Let’s all “refudiate” collective blame

The tragedy in Tuscon has deeply wounded our country (and Sarah Palin, in particular) but...

January 18, 2011

Dr. Mehmet Oz: My Muslim identity

In an interview with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., television personality and Professor of Surgery...

January 17, 2011

Park51 controversy: Learning to see

For Park51 there will be no shortcuts, only a slow path towards understanding, reconciliation and...

January 14, 2011

Arizona shootings: Why isn’t Jared Lee Loughner a homegrown terrorist?

It should come as no surprise that when law enforcement misguidedly focus their resources investigating...

January 12, 2011

The Al-Rashid: Canada’s model mosque

Imagine a mosque that left gender segregation at its door, allowed women in leadership positions,...

January 10, 2011

Extremism in Pakistan: The path of silence

While the ravages of suicide terror, and the tens of thousands of casualties that have...

January 07, 2011

Salman Taseer: Shot down for opposing the religious right

Few Pakistani politicians have had the courage to oppose blasphemy laws so openly and brazenly...

January 06, 2011

Markets: The Muslim American consumer

A report from our partners at Illume: For the second year in a row, Best...