I am a Muslim of Malay ethnicity, who was born in Singapore, where Malays are an ethnic and religious minority today, and lived there until I was 24 years old. The Malays, of whom 99 percent are ...

The Embroidery of Asif Shaikh sif Shaikh sits behind his black granite table in his office in Ahmedabad, India, discussing fabrics, colors and designs with the mother of a groom. He’s designing ...

Few topics in the religion-science debate arouse as much passion as the discussion about how the theory of evolution should be taught to children. This debate has been the topic of many legal and ...

Websites promoting tours of Southeast Asia are splashed with colorful images of golden temples, exotic jungle flowers, pristine waters, smiling children, beautiful women and happy men. Hyperlinks take ...

THE BUS changed into a lower gear. We were driving past ancient terraces cut into the rocky hillsides just outside Hebron, a region celebrated for its grapes, apricots, nuts, pomegranates, tomatoes ...

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” Iran’s epic biopic film of the Prophet Muhammad by acclaimed director Majid Majidi has ignited ...

Southern entrance to al-Azhar, Cairo photographered in the early 1900s. The Al-Azhar Mosque, the first mosque built in Cairo, was a center for Islamic scholarship from its founding in 970. Studies ...

In 1996, the company introduced Clippy, a smiling virtual assistant with big eyes and a paperclip for a body, who could answer simple user questions on Microsoft Office platforms. The Smithsonian ...

The Ghosts of Jim Crow today and ‘White Flight, Slurs, Profiling, Police Brutality and Tracking’ President Barack Obama announced the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in February that promised to ...

This article was written by Alejandro Beutel and Daryl Johnson, and features research from Mimi Yu and Asma Shah. In 2016, anti-Muslim bias appears to have been the motive behind many attacks and high ...

The charred remains of a truck still lie at the side of a road leading to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. They were there in early 2012 as well, 10 days after news broke that American troops had set ...

Why Muslims Need to Act on Mass Incarceration, Detention, and Deportation aleed: I recently attended a workshop in a Pennsylvania prison where I was taken aback to hear more than a half-dozen salaams ...