After the Referendum:Sudan Negotiates National and Religious Identity in the North
By Alex Thurston
The secession of South Sudan in July 2011 posed an existential question for (North) Sudan: what will...
Daily Links: Don't Call It a Comeback
Media in the West love the narrative that godless, Communist Russia eventually fell to the relentless, holy hand of...
Muslim Drag
Amy Levin: What would Muslim drag look like? Something like this? Yesterday, the AHA Foundation shared a...
Teaching FBI Agents Bias
Nora Connor: For a time after 9/11, the FBI seemed to stand out among the many government agencies with...
Dangerous Temptations
From Nidhal Guessoum's "New Media and Islam" at HuffPo:
Similarly, the Los Angeles Times recently related the strong reactions expressed by...
What Secular Space?: The Met Hedges Muslim
Ashley Baxstrom: If you’re in New York (and if...
99 Muslim Comic Sunday
Mary Valle: The 99, a comic series created by Naif Al-Mutawa, has gained popularity in the rest of...
Numbers Lie: Hacking at Islam
Numbers never tell the whole story--which is why liberal pleas to rely solely on science and facts carry so...
Why I Became Muslim
From James Davis' interviews with Muslims in Florida, for the Sun Sentinel, to mark Ramadan:
Q. Why did...
Who You Calling a Terrorist?
In Peter King's world, the battle has only two sides and only one winning strategy.
by Amy Levin and Abby...
Words and Deeds in Malaysia
Malaysia's Prime Minister talks of tolerance in Rome but doesn't "walk the talk" back home
by Natasja Sheriff
In a rare...
Fashion Faux Pas as Resistant Force in France
Kathryn Montalbano: NiqaBitch, a YouTube video released shortly after France's September 2010 April 2011 official ban of...
Tunisia's Secular-Religious Tension Heightens
Kathryn Montalbano: In post-revolution Tunisia, tensions between what have been described as secular and conservative Muslim...
The Urgency and the Lunacy
A Q&A with biographer Deborah Baker, author of The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, released last...
Don't Get Islam? Don't Worry, There's an App for That!
Ashley Baxstrom: Sure, you may have access to things like the Internet, where you can Google or search Wikipedia...
Religion, Saudi Arabia's Symbolic Resource
Stephane Lacroix writes for Foreign Policy that the same types of unrest that are taking place across the...
Give Us This Day Our Daily Links
"I believe the Founding Fathers were moved around like men on a chessboard put in place at that time...
Allah's Name
Zeinab Yusuf Saiwalla: In Muslim majority Malaysia, the government recently refused to allow the distribution of tens of thousands...
Listening, with Monks
Abby Ohlheiser: Of Gods and Men (122 minutes, 2010), a new film by Xavier Beauvois, opened last Friday in...
Christmas Island: Refugee Politics and an Orphan
by Nasya Bahfen
It was not nearly as dramatic as the footage beamed around the world of thousands of jubilant...
Seeing God in Tahrir: Ethics of the Revolution
by Yasmin Moll
Many commentators both inside and outside Egypt have focused on the anticipated role of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Women's Rights in Egypt
"The Mubarak regime is more dangerous to women than the Muslim Brotherhood." Listen to renown feminist Dr. Nawal...
Mubarak's Reality: Baksheesh
Hosni Mubarak didn't contrive his I'm the preventer of chaos reality all alone. The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who...
In Training, NYPD
NYPD cops-in-training recently were shown an instructive film, the Village Voice reports. "The film is called The...