The Islamic Monthly

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2016 Silver Award of Distinction
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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.

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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

We Have All This Before: Algeria and the 2011 Arab Spring

Many analysts and commentators have referred to the current uprisings across the Arab World against authoritarianism as

Francesco Cavatorta | June 17th, 2012

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

The Politics of Pluralism in the U.S.

There’s a lot of “us” and “them”-ing going on these days. Try as we may, it is almost impo

Anisa Mehdi | October 18th, 2017

Breaking the adoption taboo in Dubai

DUBAI—Aysha Albusmait likes to be called Umm Reem — “Reem’s mother” in Arabic — alth

Amanda Figueras | April 11th, 2016

Remembering Srebrenica

Abstract (Summary) About 30,000 people, including a number of international figures, gathered July p near Srebrenica, B

Islamica | November 29th, 2005

Discovering Kyrgyzstan

By Taylor Barnes We hunched over and gingerly made our way up the narrow stairs to the top of a minaret, with little gui

Taylor Barnes | March 12th, 2013

Rethinking that “explosion” of atheism in Saudi Arabia

“In the cradle of Islam, a growing number of people are quietly declaring themselves nonbelievers.” What sou

Davide Mastracci | July 29th, 2014

Reza Aslan on the America of Today

Editor’s note: The following interview took place in August 2015 between Reza Aslan and TIM EIC Amina Chaudary Rez

Editor in Chief - A.C. | October 9th, 2015

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I Was Housed, Fed, Loved and Saved in Syria By the Refugees

By: Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai

One-way ticket to hell I woke up to a crumpled piece of paper someone had placed next to my head on the pillow. Tiptoeing to the bathroom and using my mobile phone as a torch, I tried to read the shred of paper that looked like it had been torn hurri...

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