My picks for the Brass Crescent

With customary apologies and compliments to runners up, here here are my picks.

• BEST BLOG:  Musings on the Britannic Crescent (Yahya Birt)
• MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION: Rolled-Up Trousers (Osama Saeed)
• BEST DESIGN: Deenport
• BEST FEMALE BLOG: Muslimah Media Watch (Zeynab Sarbaazi)
• BEST GROUP BLOG: ‘Aqoul
• BEST MIDEAST/CENTRAL ASIAN BLOG: Nzhinga’s Soap Box
• BEST SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIAN BLOG: The Other Malaysia (Farish Noor)
• BEST NON-MUSLIM BLOG: Unclaimed Territory (Glenn Greenwald)
• BEST POST OR SERIES: Umar Lee, Rise and Fall of the Salafi Dawah in the US
• BEST MULTIMEDIA BLOG: Islamophonic (Riazat Butt)
• BEST IJTIHAD: From Clay (Ibrahim Abusharif)

Some were tough calls.