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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

Neither Here Nor There: On Losing My Snapchat Best Friend

Part I: E-World I remember when she called me baby boo for the first time. “Stupid auto-correct,” she said.

Hamdan Azhar | June 24th, 2015

The Intolerable Possibility of Slavery: A Muslim Perspective

Many Muslims are talking about slavery today. Thanks to the so-called Islamic State, Muslims and the public more general

Michael Vicente Perez | September 4th, 2015

Human dignity and mutual respect

[Headnote] A high regard for humanity once produced societies where differing communities lived in peace and flourished

Islamica | April 7th, 2009

The Religious Root of Conflicts in the Middle East

Bassam al Zarka, a sophisticated and highly intelligent Salafist leader in Egypt, eloquently explains the answer to the

Geneive Abdo | February 3rd, 2017

The Golden Age of Andalusian Science

[Headnote] Osman Bakar, a leading Muslim scholar, reflects on the Andalusian achievements in science and their significa

Islamica | October 4th, 2006

He is As His Servant Fears He Is

After the fall of Granada in 1492, Spain’s rulers offered native Jews the choice of conversion or departure. Musli

Haroon Moghul | April 3rd, 2016

Countering Anti-Muslim Hate Together

“Why do you want to kill us?” That was written on the banner held by nearly fifty young Muslim schoolchildre

Madihha Ahussain | June 24th, 2015

Photo Essay: Post Revolution Egypt – Jonathan Rashad

Many of the Muslim Brotherhood were oppressed, jailed, and even tortured for years under Hosni Mubarak’s thirty-ye

Jonathan Rashad | March 2nd, 2013

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