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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

The Intolerable Possibility of Slavery: A Muslim Perspective

Many Muslims are talking about slavery today. Thanks to the so-called Islamic State, Muslims and the public more general

Michael Vicente Perez | September 4th, 2015

5 Times Malala Has Owned Her Critics

One would have thought that a 15-year-old girl shot in the head for speaking out in favor of education for girls would b

Junaid Jahangir | October 27th, 2017

Why America Needs To Know This Man

Abdallah bin Bayyah, Sectarianism and Global Muslim Respect by Souheila Al-Jadda n January 5, 2005, Florence Aubenas, a

The Islamic Monthly Editors | March 4th, 2014

Taking God Out of the Machine

Ex Machina and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence You’re immediately drawn to her. You believe in her. &n

Hasan Azad | May 1st, 2015

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

Making Islam Relevant

What does Islam say about nuclear weapons, global warming or online dating? Does Islam have a ready-made answer to the m

Daniel Tutt | January 19th, 2017

45 Watch: The Devil Went Down to Congress

In his poem “The Generous Player,” the French poet Charles Baudelaire envisions an enchanted encounter with

Obaid H. Siddiqui | March 23rd, 2017

Craig Hicks, UNC killings, and How We Talk About Racism and Violence

Two weeks ago on a Tuesday evening Craig Hicks entered the home of three Muslim-Arab-Americans, near the

Samee Sulaiman | March 2nd, 2015

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