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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 Qualified, Critical Muslim Support for Hillary Clinton

Today’s political climate makes it absolutely crucial to balance our tradition’s soaring commitment to socia

Omid Safi | August 8th, 2016

Pankaj Mishra’s eloquent anger

Much has been made about how the rise of right-wing demagoguery today has roots in the sociopolitical aberrations of 20t

Steven Zhou | January 10th, 2017

INTERVIEW: Reza Aslan on Jesus, Islam, and Fox News

Shortly after releasing his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, award-winning author Reza Aslan jo

Arsalan Iftikhar | August 1st, 2013

Climbing the Highest Mountain: One Saudi Woman’s Journey to Making History

In a country like Saudi Arabia which often times makes its way in the news because of perceptions of its ultra-conservat

Yasmine Hassan | January 7th, 2014

The Past is Present for American Muslims

Donald Trump has just been inaugurated and Muslims across America are justifiably scared. This is by no means, however,

Will Caldwell | January 27th, 2017

Bombing Without Moonlight: The Origins of Suicidal Terrorism

TJ Winter takes a probing look into the origins of suicide bombing as a tactic of terrorism.

TJ Winter | April 26th, 2005

How Mosques Are Self-Empowering Against Hate This Ramadan

A few summers ago, Razwan Mughal, a board member of Masjid an-Nur in Maryland, found bullet holes in the windows of the

Hina Tai | June 12th, 2017

Surveillance, Spectacle and the Panoptic State

Shortly after 9 p.m. on June 7, 2011, FBI agent Christopher Tarbell and his partner, draped in dark suits and bulletproo

Obaid H. Siddiqui | January 14th, 2015

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