Michelle Remembers and the Satanic Panic
The final installment in our three-part series about stories of abuse in minority religious communities and how they have...
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In the News: Profiling, Prince, Peaceniks and more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Heaven, Human Rights, His Holiness, and more!
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How Christians Helped Create The Muslim Brotherhood
Maurice Chammah reviews Beth Baron's book The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Generation in Play: Israel, Palestine and the New Evangelicals
Maurice Chammah investigates ruptures in the traditionally steadfast American Evangelical support for Israel.
In the News: Wicca, Climate Change, Gaza and Much More
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In the News: Prisons Churches, Museums, and, of course, Hobby Lobby
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Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part Two: Al Jazeera on Trial
The second in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and...
The Anchor Boys
Maurice Chammah investigates the history and present of a Christian home for boys.
The Secular Square
Maurice Chammah reviews Oscar-nominated documentary film, The Square.
Performing Piety
Maurice Chammah reviews a new book on Egypt's swing towards public religiosity and the celebrities who reinvented their image...
God's Favorite Place on Earth
By Maurice Chammah In Glen Rose, Texas, the director of a small Creation Evidence Museum expounds on his...
On Piety: Egypt, Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood
By Maurice Chammah The popular image of Egypt split by religious and political loyalties belies a subtle story of...
Carmen Weinstein: Legacy and Nostalgia
On April 13, Carmen Weinstein, leader of Egypt’s dwindling Jewish community, died at her home in Cairo. She was...
Sonallah Ibrahim: Life in the Raw
Following the publication of a new translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's "That Smell," Maurice Chammah considers the book, and its...
Destiny and Defiance in Port Said
By Maurice Chammah "Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles,...
The Last Pro-Israel Election?
By Maurice Chammah The question of Zionism and whether or not you support it has for a while now...
Decibels and Debate: Unifying Egypt's Call to Prayer
by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians,...
All Together? The Legacy of Egypt's Jews
by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one...
The Bullet That Doesn't Hit You
By Maurice Chammah Nasser had...wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without...
The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt
by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...