The Islamic Monthly

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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.

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

Letter to Obama

[Headnote] The Muslim world is looking to Barack Obama for leadership on key issues

Arsalan Iftikhar | April 7th, 2009

Diaspora Dreams, Transatlantic Mourning and Time Travel

The journey that members of diaspora communities make when they travel “back home” — to that nebulous

Aina Khan | April 14th, 2016

Domestic Terrorism at UNC-Chapel Hill

Dear America, Could you imagine if 300 million of us Americans woke up one morning to the breaking news that a gun-wield

Arsalan Iftikhar | February 12th, 2015

Does It Matter?

Introduction Muslim-Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of President Barack Obama in 2008, and like many pro-Obama c

Mohammad Fadel | October 9th, 2012

Where are the Muslims?

Syria burns while the international community continues its anemic efforts to stop Assad from massacring his own populat

Zaid Hassan | September 26th, 2013

Come on Muslims: Spare me the Script!

As a media organization born in Boston, The Islamic Monthly is shocked at today’s tragic explosion at th

Editor in Chief - A.C. | April 15th, 2013

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

Please Don’t Ask Me About Hijab and Freedom Now That I’m Muslim

Responses to the news that I am Muslim have ranged from excitement to confusion to surprise to silence, and a bit of eve

Shelley Burke | August 2nd, 2013

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