Popular podcast Serial is back! After breaking into mainstream culture with a season 1 of 12 episodes, Sarah Koenig and her team will try to solve another case and report about it on a podcast. This time, Serial will investigate the case of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier who has…
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Are you part of the 9/11 or are you ISIS?” “Did you ever kill anyone?” “Are you going to bomb this place?” These are some typical questions that 12-year-old Abdu Rrahman Mohamed says he’s been asked by his non-Muslim classmates week after week in his Long Beach, California, school, he…
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Al Jazeera English’s The Stream recently featured this conversation on faith in times of fear: Photo Credit
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A church which was built in the middle of Berlin in the 13th century and destroyed in World War II, is likely to be rebuilt as the world’s first all-in-one church-mosque-synagogue, called the House of One. Though the property belongs to the church, authorities hope to build a sacred spaces…
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The women had arrived to Islam in various ways. One of them, Lina, was born into the religion but often struggled to reconcile it with her mother’s Peruvian culture, which she felt was more “liberal.” Two others, Myree and Noelia, converted as a result of marriage. Miriam, the daughter of…
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Disney-Pixar recently released the teaser for the upcoming Sanjay’s Super Team. The animated short—the first from the studio that features an Indian-American family as the main characters—focuses on a young boy who would rather spend his day watching superheroes on TV than partake in his dad’s religious meditation. The seven-minute…
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Simplistic images of Daesh and of Islam portray the group and the religion as abusive of women—not just their women, but our women. In these simplistic images, women are stereotypically feminine. They are peaceful and nurturing. They would not commit political violence unless some evil people or religion manipulated or…
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“It was with much sadness that I witnessed your gleeful reaction when police named Syed Farooq, a devout Muslim, as one of the suspects. You seem to be under the impression that a Muslim shooter absolves the United States of brutality, forgetting that Farooq is…
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In her book Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Linda Scott writes “the ability to control what is fashionable is the power women wield over each other”. In this sense, a fashion week, with designers, buyers, watchers, tweeters, bloggers, models, photographers and telecasters, promotes a certain notion of women’s place…
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The poor representation of women on panels discussing important social, policy, and theological questions at Muslim centered events has “dire consequences for our communities” explains Samar Kaukab, who’s Executive Director at Arete, University of Chicago. She goes on to add that the Muslim communities in the U.S. lose out because…
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