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August 2014

August 27, 2014
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the  Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...
August 14, 2014
In the last few days, several people have put their two cents in about whether...

June 2014

June 27, 2014
Even though I'm Unmosqued*, Ramadan is the time of year when I wholeheartedly immerse myself...

May 2014

May 12, 2014
Unique among Western and industrialized nations, the US boasts a high rate of people who...
May 07, 2014
This week has seen an uptick in activism - social and on the ground -...

April 2014

April 30, 2014
I came across this article (2012) which is about the salaries American imams receive as...
April 21, 2014
Last week, an anonymous British Muslim group, The Honesty Policy, released a video of diverse...

March 2014

March 30, 2014
Early last week, the mosque down the street from my house was shot at by...
March 13, 2014
The Muslim social media world is abuzz this week about a certain British religious teacher's...
March 11, 2014
One night during my freshman year of college, a friend of mine and I were...

February 2014

February 19, 2014
I was asked to share my thoughts for a Huffington Post Religion piece that came...
February 14, 2014
This week, those of you on Twitter may have noticed your Muslim friends using the...
February 03, 2014
In my entire life, I have never watched an American football game (my friends make...

January 2014

January 24, 2014
In the last few weeks, Muslims around the world have been celebrating the month in...
January 14, 2014
We are in the season of Mawlid - the month in which Muslims around the...
January 01, 2014
In 2013, the photo blog I curate on women's prayer spaces in mosques around the...

December 2013

December 04, 2013
By now, the Muslim blogosphere has erupted with congratulations and condemnations, excitement and judgement, mud...
December 02, 2013
Last month I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion among Haroon Moghul, Wajahat...

November 2013

November 06, 2013
Those of us who find ourselves living at the intersection of race and popular culture...

September 2013

September 17, 2013
I recently participated in an interfaith panel with some of Chicago's most distinguished religious leaders....
September 04, 2013
A recent documentary has outed the breast-baring, Ukrainian "sextremist" group Femen as being founded and...

August 2013

August 27, 2013
Orland Park is a well-to-do suburb of Chicago that is coming to terms with its...
August 19, 2013
Earlier this summer, riots broke out in suburban Paris, sparked by a police check on...
August 04, 2013
We slip the note in under the imam's closed door and run away from his...

July 2013

July 26, 2013
Some Muslims are fasting from social media this Ramadan, but many others are not. Here's...
July 16, 2013
Muslims around the world sing songs of devotion to God and celebrate our Prophet (PBUH)...

June 2013

June 28, 2013
The authors of this piece, Shereen Yousuf and Hind Makki, first met in 2007 while...
June 21, 2013
The conversation on gender, women, self-esteem and representation is an ongoing one and one which...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
3 weeks ago, Danish Muslim activists Inaam Abou-Khadra and Alaa Abdol-Hamid started a campaign to...
May 28, 2013
A round-up of news, views, and videos of last week's brutal, fatal attack on British...
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