From Karachi, Saba Imtiaz reports on the art scene in Pakistan and the challenges artists face when they choose...

In Istanbul, Jenna Krajeski talks to supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and finds that there is more to...

By Nayma Qayum War crimes trials usher in a new era of religious politics in a nation still suffering...

Irina Papkova reviews Geraldine Fagan's "Believing in Russia - Religious Policy After Communism"

By Sajida Jalalzai. A hunger strike at Guantanamo during Ramadan reveals contradictions about religion, ethics, and prisoners' rights.

By Saba Imtiaz In Pakistan's Punjab province, shrines to the doomed lovers of epic sagas are not only testament...

In the weeks following the death of Hugo Chávez, thousands of his supporters flocked to Caracas to view his...

As violence spreads amongst Burma's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority, Francis Wade meets U Wirathu, who calls himself the...

Press accounts about Muslims in Chiapas state have failed to understand the complexity of faith in the region, writes...

Photographer Ryan Roco investigates the complex and multifaceted conflict that led to the current refugee crisis in Burma's Arakan...

From Beirut, Irina Papkova reports on an anti-sectarian movement for a more secular Lebanon, and a marriage that's...

Rowan Moore Gerety Few countries offer more fertile ground for a gospel of health and wealth than Mozambique, a...

By Saba Imtiaz In 1984, Pakistan's military ruler, General Zia-ul-Haq, changed the country's Constitution, making it a crime for...

In the second of two posts, Irina Papkova, explores Bashar al-Assads assertion that Syria is the "last stronghold of...

By Maurice Chammah "Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles,...

In the aftermath of a 1937 massacre, Rafael Trujillo’s violent regime launched a campaign to demonize Haitians, using voudou...