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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

Challenges to American Law Schools: Cost, Complexity and Precedents

Yale University law professor, Bruce Ackerman, recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post rejecting Obama’s su

Saad Ansari | October 4th, 2013

Jettisoning Johnson Makes America Less Great, Again

Conservatives have succeeded in infusing religion into our government. It has taken four decades for this slow, creeping

Neda Bolourchi | October 6th, 2017

21 Egyptians. Beheaded by ISIS.

On January 3rd, around 2 a.m. in the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, masked gunmen banged on the door of a dormitory for E

Jonathan Rashad | March 4th, 2015

45 Watch II

It’s Week Two of Trump Watch and the the War of the Words is in full swing. The lies and propaganda shoveled by th

Obaid H. Siddiqui | February 10th, 2017

A Queer Muslim and Orlando

Forty-nine queer and trans folks, mostly of color were killed on Latin Night at the Pulse Club in Orlando on June 12, wi

Noha Elmohands | June 23rd, 2016

After Abraham, Before Peace – Navigating the Divides

Editor’s Note: The Islamic Monthly publishes a variety of opinions from all sides. This post is a response t

Abdullah Antepli | July 9th, 2014

Trump, Immigration and the Politics of Deception

Seven days after becoming U.S. president, Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, temporarily banning refugees and mi

Michael Vicente Perez | April 17th, 2017

Embracing the Left Hand of God

If we look closely at the dynamics of the struggle underlying the politics of the contemporary world, we can see a conte

Rabbi Michael Lerner | June 18th, 2012

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