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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

From Mourning to Healing: 10 years on

The five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – were so important to us in

Hussein Rashid | June 17th, 2012

Inside “America the Beautiful”

The Coca-Cola Commercial Backstory hen Super Bowl XLVIII weekend came around, thousands of people set up camp&nbs

Yasmine Hassan | February 14th, 2014

The Various Proto(types) of Black American Muslims

Last month, President Donald Trump made his first foreign trip as commander in chief of the United States to Saudi Arabi

Muhammad Fraser-Rahim | June 6th, 2017

Logging it all: CVE and Schisms in the Muslim Community

The debate surrounding the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Summit reflects schisms in the Muslim community. In Southe

Margari Aziza Hill | March 4th, 2015

Helene Newberg’s Marathon journey

The Islamic Monthly Editors | April 29th, 2013

Free Speech is Hardly Free

Charlie Hebdo is Nothing but a Schoolyard Bully The genius of liberalism is in claiming its ideas to be universal, when

S. F. Clemons | January 9th, 2015

Former Chief of Staff of Anwar Ibrahim shares his personal story working for him

Mr. Anwar, the once heir-apparent to leadership in Malaysia’s ruling party UMNO, which has ruled the country since

The Islamic Monthly Staff | March 17th, 2014

In the Spirit of Sa’dat Hasan Manto + Short Story: Ten Rupees

Sa’adat Hasan Manto, arguably the most prolific Urdu short story writer of the modern period, is best known in South A

Mohammad Bilal Nasir | March 12th, 2013

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