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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

A Need for Private Spaces

For All Our Public Work, We Need Private Spaces to Grow as Communities Muslim Americans — like other communities &

Shabana Mir | April 3rd, 2016

Bill Maher, UC Berkeley and the Muslim Boycott: Perspectives and Opinion

The University of California’s recent decision to have comedian and political critic Bill Maher deliver the commen

The Islamic Monthly Editors | November 8th, 2014

How Trump Instigates Sectarian Warfare

By Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal and Craig Considine In recent years, President Donald Trump has questioned the legitimacy of Is

Abdul Cader Asmal | May 31st, 2017

Interview Hasan Çelebi

Abstract (Summary) [...] I can't remember much of my life before I started training. [...] with khat, my hand stays ste

Islamica | January 24th, 2005

The Quebec City shooting and Canada’s false “immunity”

It’s hardly a question by now that today’s right-wing, anti-Muslim sentiment has an emboldening effect on th

Steven Zhou | January 31st, 2017

Fasting for Love: A Soldier’s Ramadan

I was a bit taken aback when someone dear to me asked me the obvious when I told her about Ramadan’s arrival last

Josh Shahryar | July 10th, 2013

2010 and 2011 Timeline

1.4.10 Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opens the Burj Khalifa, which gained the title of the “tallest building in the

timteam | June 17th, 2012

A Christmas Story

For the last few years, I’ve watched in wonder as Fox News promotes one of its signature narratives: the war on Ch

Michael Vicente Perez | March 12th, 2013

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