A Dervish in the NBA: Enes Kanter
Justin Pahl
Enes Kanter is unique among American athletes. He is one of the few practicing Muslim players in the NBA, and in a league...
A Tale of Two Ends
Salma Hany Abdel Fattah
My pen is heavy and my words are messy; is the world I know gone already? I miss the rhythm of...
Geography of Friendship
Humeyra TOSUN / Kelli Angelone
Two Poems and Some Thoughts
Recently I was reading a book called The Geography of Thought. To my surprise, the author...
Dream, Believe, Fly
Linda Oatman High
Dream. Believe. Fly.
This is my motto in life, now that I am fifty-five.
Dream, Believe, Fly. These three words have a ring, a...
A Plea to Those Who Dream
Earl Carlo Guevarra
Life is beautiful for those who dream big. It is not because they have something to hold onto; it is because they...
Thanksgiving: Now And Then
Selma Dagtas
Among many holidays observed annually in the United States, Thanksgiving has a special place due to its uniqueness to American culture and its...
An Insight about Dhikr
Alan Godlas
Mediation in Islam and Sufism is dhikr, namely remembering--with all our senses and bringing into our full awareness--what really is and who we...
A Rabbi’s perspective on the Abrahamic faiths and pluralism
Allen Maller
When those who believe in the Torah of Prophet Moses, or the Gospel of Prophet Jesus, or the Qur’an of Prophet Muhammad, fight...
The crisis of masculinity in modern Muslim men
Dawud Walid
I’ve been very vocal in the past couple of years that we have a crisis of manliness in the American Muslim community. The...
An Eid without Muslims: A Muslim revert’s experience
Anisa Abeytia
Non-Muslims must find it difficult to understand why every year Muslims gleefully anticipate the coming of Ramadan, a month of foregoing food and...