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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

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

A First: Building a College for Rural Afghan Women

I think my mission is to make people understand that all Muslims are not murderers and terrorists. We are good people. &

Beth Murphy | August 5th, 2015

BASE AMERICA

[Headnote] A generation is presently growing up in the world that equates America with torture, crass colonialism and wa

Islamica | February 4th, 2007

Being a Halfjaby and the Extreme Paranoia that Comes With that

I have a dear friend who wears hijab. Or, rather, she kind of does and kind of doesn’t. She’s what I like to

Nadya T. | May 23rd, 2016

The Scary Ongoing Effects of Bad Parenting

One morning this week, after dropping my kids off to school, I stopped by the first Starbucks that opened in our small t

Nadya T. | October 17th, 2016

Ten Years After Fallujah: The Rise of the City as a Strategic Military Problem

Were one event to encapsulate the moral gravity and historic meaning of the United States’ military intervention i

Ahmed Kanna | April 15th, 2015

Meet the New Ms. Marvel

Kamala Khan is a first-generation American-Muslim. Her parents are immigrants from Pakistan. She’s a sixteen-year

The Islamic Monthly Staff | November 6th, 2013

RAMADAN’S FIRST RUNG

Abstract (Summary) Ramadan sonnets Ramadan's revelations are served up in one month, but it is the rest of the year tha

Islamica | October 5th, 2007

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