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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 Intersection of Islamophobia and Gun Culture

The first time you hear about a planned hate-rally outside a mosque, attended by armed bikers, you wonder: How did thing

Imraan Siddiqi | October 7th, 2015

The Future of Europe: IN ISLAM

[Headnote] Does the Pope's vision of the future of Europe include the full participation of the Muslim communities? And

Islamica | October 5th, 2007

How I crept up on creeping Sharia

It was an extremely crisp Saturday in early April of last year; crisp in that sort of way that only an overused and abus

Sana Saeed | April 1st, 2013

What went wrong with Bernard Lewis?

[Headnote] One academic who should have remained in his ivory tower

Islamica | April 8th, 2009

Notable Books: Barefoot in Baghdad

Chapter Ten THE NEGOTIATION CHIPS My six months on the ground had demonstrated what I had known by instinct. Iraqi women

Manal Omar | June 17th, 2012

COMPREHENDING CATASTROPHE

[Headnote] The worst of the devastation seen in New Orleans is ultimately man-made and springs from our skewed prioritie

Islamica | January 29th, 2006

THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

Abstract (Summary) Zakaria is more concerned with the political reality of transitioning states, and as a result sets f

Islamica | July 27th, 2005

Syrian Alawites: Their history, their future

The conflict in Syria has taken a critical turn. Alawites, who have long rallied behind their co-religionist president,

Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai | October 28th, 2015

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