The Islamic Monthly

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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

The Media That Failed

[Headnote] How Language Lies

Haroon Moghul | February 4th, 2007

Pakistan’s Military

Analysts today are skeptical about the possibility that Pakistani political parties – which have done little to pr

Saeed Shafqat | June 17th, 2012

Please Don’t Let it Be Muslim!

first published October 2013 Boston and The Post 9/11 Era by Yvonne Haddad and Nazir Harb Michel It is too early to spec

The Islamic Monthly Staff | September 8th, 2014

Thinking about Trump’s “Wall” through Pink Floyd’s

Prior to winning the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump campaigned as a tough-on-immigration candidate who vowed t

SpearIt | November 29th, 2018

LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF A BILLION MUSLIMS

[Headnote] The largest and most comprehensive survey of the Muslim world conducted by Gallup from 2001 to 2007 yielded

Islamica | April 7th, 2009

In Brazil: A Muslim School Shooter? A correspondent reflects on reporting on Islam in a post 9/11 world

RIO DE JANEIRO – Early on April 7, 2011, in a worn-out neighborhood far from the downtown carnival and beaches of

Taylor Barnes | June 17th, 2012

Argo Tries but Fails to Defuse Stereotypes

by: Evelyn Alsultany In my book, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11, I discuss my surpri

The Islamic Monthly Staff | November 7th, 2013

The Politics of Racism in the Middle East

Editor’s note: first published in December 2014 in the print edition. Nothing in the Middle East stays the same fo

Steven Zhou | February 5th, 2015

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