The Fight for the Right to be Muslim in America
A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.
A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.
Andrew Rice The Guardian Feb 2018 30min Permalink
The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.
Abigail Pesta Texas Monthly Oct 2017 30min Permalink
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A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink
“As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport.”
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.
Anonymous New York Review of Books Aug 2015 15min Permalink
The writer’s relationship with two Moroccan prostitutes.
Sarah Dohrmann Harper's Oct 2015 30min Permalink
On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.
Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2014 15min Permalink
In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.
Alex Preston GQ (UK) Feb 2014 25min Permalink
A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.
Amanda Lindhout with Sara Corbett New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 20min Permalink
Mystical, unsettling rumors surround a student at an all-girls school in Nigeria.
"We shuddered when we heard her invoke Allah. All but begging her not to unleash her powers on us, we recounted, in turns, how we had heard from someone who had heard from someone of the pencil case in the gym. Pencil case in the gym? What pencil case in what gym? We said that we had heard stories, too, about the blotting paper. Naturally, we made no mention of her Islamic faith. The word ‘witch’ remained unsaid. We said only that, whatever she had done, we were certain she had done for a good reason. And that her adversary, whomever it was, probably deserved it. Nuratu, as the full implication of our story dawned on her, looked as if she had been stabbed. She slowly sank to the floor, and began to weep and shake her head.
Teju Cole Island Magazine Aug 2013 Permalink
A Javanese shrine where Muslim pilgrims seeking good fortune must peform a ritual: find a stranger, have sex with them.
Aubrey Belford The Global Mail Oct 2012 15min Permalink
How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.
Hugh Eakin New York Review of Books Oct 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of David Yerushalmi, the little-known Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn leading the campaign casting Islamic law as the greatest threat to American freedom since the cold war.
Andrea Elliott New York Times Jul 2011 10min Permalink
Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”
Rany Jazayerli Rany on the Royals Jul 2010 25min Permalink
Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.
Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink
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A new Egyptian TV channel called 4Shbab—“for youth” in Arabic—aims to get young people interested in Islam through music videos and reality shows.
Negar Azimi New York Times Magazine Aug 2010 Permalink
The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”
Ivan Solotaroff, Mike Tyson Details Jul 2010 Permalink