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2017 Silver Award of Distinction
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The magazine was co-founded and run by three American Muslim women in 2010 inspired by the publication's former magazine, Islamica. The magazine successfully printed bi-annullly from 2011-2018 with daily digital content and exclusive interviews in the form of print, audio and visual stories. The magazine's core principle was to allow for a space for stories of all kinds related to American Muslims, while striving for abiding by ethical journalism. Despite it's many successes, including a number of exclusive interviews and having articles referenced in mainstream press in America often, and challenges the magazine could not sustain itself or find the proper funding to continue publishing. It never officially shuttered but stopped active publishing in 2018.

This site is archived. The homepage below will select articles at random for your viewing. The previous print issues are also available for your viewing.

The Unpredictable Nation: America In the Age of Trump

WINTER/SPRING 2017

Are American Muslims The Pivotal Hot Button Issue This Election?

SUMMER/FALL 2016

Mass Movement to Nowhere

WINTER/SPRING 2015-2016

Racism Changes

SPRING/SUMMER 2015

New Perspectives on America's Muslims

FALL/WINTER 2014

Will America Ever Move Past Racism?

SPRING/SUMMER 2014

New Faces of America: Leaders, Politicians and Entrepreneurs

FALL 2013

What if Obama Wins? Loses? What’s at Stake for Muslims?

FALL 2012

Radioactive Muslims: American Muslims as Outsiders

WINTER/SPRING 2012

The Revolution or Evolution of the East

SUMMER/FALL 2011

2011 and Reflections on the Past Year

2011

Featured Pieces

Are bold expressions of faith appropriate during the World Cup ?

The World Cup is a composite of hundreds of players from varying faiths. Some men make the sign of the cross in a prayer

The Islamic Monthly Staff | June 26th, 2014

FRAMING THE War on Terror

[Headnote] Are the mental models guiding post 9/11 policy leading to actions that help to eliminate or inadvertently inc

Islamica | October 5th, 2007

To Lose Weight in Ramadan, Start Here First

In the weeks leading up to Ramadan, I have been getting a plethora of private messages—on Instagram, Facebook, and

Daanish Faruqi | April 23rd, 2019

Of mice and Muslim psychoses

Today Muslims are experiencing large scale “psychoses”. Psychosis may be defined as an interpretation

Hasan Azad | January 17th, 2015

Light and Blessings – T.T.

A remembrance of Tayyibah Taylor Last Friday, as I was waiting, blue-gowned, in the hospital for my bi-annual mammograph

Salma Hasan Ali | September 12th, 2014

From Stranded to Standard: Who’s to Blame for the Failure in Bangladesh Fire

News travels fast. News in Silicon Valley travels even faster. Two days before Ron Johnson resigned from Apple inc. to b

Maryam Eskandari | April 29th, 2013

Painting the Secret Lives of Muslim Women

Ameena Khan, an artist living in Tampa, Florida, feels that she’s finally grown into herself as a painter and illu

Janet Kozak | February 17th, 2016

Notes Towards An Incomplete Manifesto for Liberating the Muslim Mind

Imagine for a moment an alternative history. Imagine a world in which Muslim scholars never bothered to translate the Gr

Zaid Hassan | April 8th, 2013

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