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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

The Arab Spring and the End of Narrative Terror

The Arab Spring represents one of the most powerful and promising changes in the recent history of the Middle East. Its

Michael Vicente Perez | June 18th, 2012

Make sure to “hide your power level”

The ugliest instances of today’s far-right resurgence — Charlottesville, the Muslim ban, the Quebec City mos

Steven Zhou | April 5th, 2018

Ferguson: A View From the Other Side Of the Tracks

Getting up early in the morning and taking a shower I would often walk from my grandparents home to the 74 Florissant bu

Umar Lee | December 11th, 2014

America’s Latest ‘Outsiders’: The Struggle of Religious Minorities Throughout American History

The relationship between Muslim-majority societies and American and Western European states has been simplistically unde

Kambiz Ghaneabassiri | March 13th, 2013

Perspective: The Muslims Now Have No Choice but to Organize

A society’s capacity to move forward during dark times is dependent upon its ability to foresee, and thus grapple,

Steven Zhou | November 11th, 2016

Aladdin 2.0: Hollywood still isn’t serious about diversity

Last week, Disney Studios released a live-action version of its 1990s animated film, Aladdin. The live-action film has b

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer | May 28th, 2019

Friedman’s Folly and the Islamophobic Razor

“But we must ask a question only Muslims can answer: What is going on in your community that a critical number of

Michael Vicente Perez | May 15th, 2013

The Loss of Meaning

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Islamica | January 1st, 2006

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