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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

It’s Not You, American Muslims, It’s Me

He seems confused, indecisive, and uncertain. And is that what he wants his legacy to be? President Obama has one

Haroon Moghul | July 19th, 2014

The New Middle Eastern Order

The balance of power in the Middle East is shifting. Whereas traditional old guard regimes like the House of Saud in Sau

Nausherwan Hafeez | December 11th, 2015

When Push Comes to Shove: Civil Society and the Promise of Peace

[Headnote] After forty years of ceaseless conflict and political failure, the war of 1967 has taught us that history's l

Michael Vicente Perez | October 5th, 2007

Eating Sandwiches with Ben Affleck and Three Strands of Islamophobia

Ben Affleck is no expert on Islam or religion, but he knows a bully when he sees one. He also has both a moral compass a

S. F. Clemons | October 10th, 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

The Final Presidential Debate

Donald Trump did better than the first debate. However, this does not mean he should win this election. His poll numbers

The Islamic Monthly Editors | October 20th, 2016

Hope Amid Europe’s Ticking Time Bomb

Greece was dying in the summer of 2013, and the drama around the event was as poignant as anything Sophocles has written

Akbar Ahmed | March 5th, 2018

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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