The Islamic Monthly

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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

Let’s Not Discuss That Again

It’s been a long year. The Muslim American community has seen more than its fair share of controversies and dramas

Laila Alawa | December 30th, 2014

Black Women and Police Brutality

The idea of the Strong Black Woman who can endure anything hearkens back to slavery, but like the myth of Mammy, it is i

Mikki Kendall | February 2nd, 2016

Munira Ahmed: The Face of Resistance

Munira Ahmed’s face was featured in a Shepard Fairey poster that came to prominence during the Women’s March

The Islamic Monthly Staff | February 27th, 2017

The Ethics of Cloning

Abstract (Summary) People knew, of course, that this "Thou shalt not" did not belittle the human being, but rather they

Islamica | January 26th, 2005

Qandeel Baloch, Angelina Jolie, and the Cattiness of (Muslim) Women

The murder of provocative and seductive Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch, killed by her brother in an “h

Nadya T. | July 17th, 2016

Is Palestinian Life Grievable?

“Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away–or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time.

Farah El-Sharif | July 21st, 2014

EXCLUSIVE Coping with Transnational Terror: A Turkish View

By Bulent Aras and Mehmet Celebi Editor’s Note: TIM is focused on analyzing the complexity of the ethnicity issue

The Islamic Monthly Editors | April 19th, 2013

Viral Videos – do they make a difference?

Do viral video awareness campaigns, like this one about the war in Syria, really make a difference? March 15th marks the

The Islamic Monthly Staff | March 13th, 2014

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