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March 2017

March 03, 2017

Between Disengagement and Changing Paradigms – A New Path for America’s Mosques

How does one resolve these two parallel realities – that while there are fewer people...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

ISNA 2013 – Reflections on Sacred Space: Where’s My Place

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

September 03, 2013

ISNA 2013 – A Short Collection of Memorable Quotes

It seemed like all the (American and other) Muslim heavyweights came out for the 50th...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Combating Islamophobia — Breaking through the Invisibility Cloak

By Dr. Henry Millstein and Maha Elgenaidi The advent of Ramadan this year on July 9...

July 01, 2013

Video: Lesley Hazleton on How Doubt is Essential to Faith

By LesleyHazleton From time to time Altmuslim likes to feature interesting videos exploring Islam, Muslims...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

The Blessed Ones — Helping Families with Special Needs in our Communities

By Salim Patel SMILE for Charity, a local non-profit located in Northern New Jersey, recently...

April 2012

April 19, 2012

The Typecast Muslim Professional

By Kari Ansari While Muslims collectively groan almost daily over some mischaracterization of Islam or...

May 2011

May 03, 2011

Song "Find Heaven": A soundtrack to radicalization

A song and music video by musician Daniyal Noorani tells the story of a confused...

March 2011

March 16, 2011

Singer Yuna: From Malaysia, with guitar

With a few intensely crafted songs, Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna manages to dispel scores of stereotypes...

February 2011

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...

January 2011

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 06, 2011

Markets: The Muslim American consumer

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

December 2010

December 26, 2010

Video: What’s really in the Quran?

Lesley Hazleton, aka The Accidental Theologist, author most recently of "After the Prophet: the Epic...

December 15, 2010

Video: Muslim women do that

How does the reality of the lives of Muslim women differ from the perceptions of...

October 2010

October 31, 2010

Rally for Sanity and/or Fear: Muslims holding signs

Among the over 200,000 people who gathered this weekend in Washington, DC for the "Rally...

October 03, 2010

Center for American Progress: Challenging Islamophobia

What forces are behind the spike in anti-Muslim hate speech and what is their goal?...

September 2010

September 06, 2010

Movie "Fordson": Faith, fasting, and football

With an epic reach, a new documentary looks at the lives of four high school...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

30 Mosques, 30 States: In search of Muslim America

This Ramadan, Bassam Tariq and Aman Ali expand on last year's exploration of 30 mosques...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

Film "TruthSearch": Muslim artists search for truth

As I screened my latest film, TruthSearch, at the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum, I...

June 01, 2010

Humor: Are pork rinds halal?

A funny video that crossed our path (anonymously, of course) recently asks the age old...

April 2010

April 18, 2010

Al Jazeera English interview: A look at Islam in Hollywood

Along with author and screenwriter Kamran Pasha, Editor-in-chief Shahed Amanullah spoke to Al Jazeera's Riz...

November 2009

November 13, 2009

Politics: A Muslim candidate’s unconventional strategy

Jackson Heights resident Mujib Rahman wanted to be the first Bangladeshi elected to New York's...

November 11, 2009

Islamophobia: The Muslims are coming!

Are Muslims really trying to take over America? Most estimates indicate that there are 3-4...

November 03, 2009

UC Berkeley seminar: Politics and new media in the Muslim world

Our own Wajahat Ali moderated a panel discussion on "Politics and New Media in the...

October 2009

October 14, 2009

Book "Children of Dust": A portrait of the blogger as a young immigrant

Longtime blogger and contributor to altmuslim, Ali Eteraz, has released his first book Children of...

July 2009

July 09, 2009

Radical Middle Way Event: Wired warriors in London

We participated in "Divan 2.0 - Wired Warriors For The Soul of Islam," a Question...

June 2009

June 12, 2009

Hajj construction: A glimpse of the Meccan future

A controversial plan involving the multinational construction firm Atkins to expand the Grand Mosque in...

June 05, 2009

CNN report: American Muslims, Jews rate Obama’s speech

Editor-in-chief Shahed Amanullah discusses the ramifications of Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on CNN along...

April 2009

April 29, 2009

Film "New Muslim Cool": Playing it cool

Described as "spellbinding" by the San Francisco Chronicle, the new documentary New Muslim Cool by...

October 2008

October 20, 2008

Election 2008: Standing up to hate

Before you generalize about Republicans, watch a group of Muslim (and Christian) McCain fans shoo...