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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

The Threat of a Secular State

Writing for The Electronic Intifada, Professor Joseph Massad argues that liberal and secular Arabs have had a devastatin

Cyra Akila Choudhury | April 24th, 2015

Interview: MANAL OMAR

Abstract (Summary) WMWI is the only international NGO in Iraq that is devoted exclusively to serving the most marginali

Islamica | April 26th, 2005

Energy Reform and the BP Oil Spill

America was in a frenzy after millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. So much so that “BP oil

Dina Badawy | June 17th, 2012

Sex in the Mosque

Let’s Talk about Sex(ED) Item #66 on a list of ways that mosques could better connect with Muslim youth: Sex Educa

Krystina Friedlander | February 26th, 2013

Azealia Banks, reputation, and the wild world of popular opinion

It’s probably a given truism by now that, in the current era, Muslims around the world should try and influence po

Steven Zhou | May 13th, 2016

New Atheists and the Same Old Islamophobia

One who seeks God through logical proof is like someone who looks for the Sun with a lamp. — Old Sufi

Muqtedar Khan | February 11th, 2015

Telling our stories before they are hijacked: Exclusive interview with Emad Burnat

Emad Burnat is co-director of the Palestinian documentary “5 Broken Cameras”, a film about his villag

Souheila Al-Jadda | May 18th, 2013

Muslim Citizenship in the Context of the “War on Terrorism”

Cooperate in Furtherance of Righteousness and Godliness, not in Sin and Aggression: The year 2010 may very well go down

Mohammad Fadel | June 15th, 2012

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