Editor's picks
Taliban Afghanistan 2 years on: Report from a forgotten land
Koranic research: The reader maketh the book
The last Syrian: Dreaming of freedom
1948 – Remember, Remember Not: The perspectives of others
Equality in the Arab world: Lebanon's 'dangerous' Khateera feminists
Empowering women: Transforming horizons in rural Morocco
Racism in Arab societies: It all depends on your origins
Introducing Sufism: A longing deep within us
Historical revisionism in India: Modi rewrites the history books
Arab trend philosophy: Erich Fromm's advice for troubled times
The Global Qur'an: Searching the suras
Jesus and Mary in the Koran: The message of mercy
Micha Brumlik: For the institutionalisation of Islamic-Jewish dialogue
Germany's culture of remembrance: An exercise in empathy
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: For a plurality of Koranic interpretations
Islam: People of reason vs. people of the hadith
How feminist are the protests in Iran? The struggle for self-determination
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Qatar critics and their blind spots
Qatar 2022 and the Arab world: "It’s our World Cup"
Asef Bayat on the Iran protests: "A movement to reclaim life"
Iran protests 2022: Tehran fatally oblivious to social change
Iran protests 2022: Female film stars show solidarity
Golineh Atai's unsung heroines: In Iran, freedom is female
Political Islam and violence: A question of power
Iran protests: "Change that goes beyond the moment"
Egypt, Alaa Abd El-Fattah and democracy: "You have not yet been defeated"
Climate change in the Islamic world: Of infernal proportions
Southeast Asia: Autocratic versus democratic Islam
The "Azura" restaurant in Jerusalem: Cooking between the extremes
Refugees' rights met with draconian punishments
Annemarie Schimmel’s pioneering take on Islam
Challenging Turkish history: "The stories of our families"
Mona Eltahawy: The Middle East needs a sexual revolution
Iran and Russia: The Islamic Republic surrenders to Putin
"The Suspect": Muslims post-9/11 subject to blanket targeting
Shoah and Nakba – two interlinked catastrophes
Arab states: The ruling classes' dereliction of duty
Femicide in Egypt: "Say no, you'll be in trouble"
Navid Kermani asks: "How do we believe?"
What is art, when the primary sensory organ is the heart?
The Global Qur'an: Searching the suras
The muezzin call: "Traditional religious practice is not political Islam"
Dina El Omari: "Muslim women need space for critical self-reflection"
Innovation in the Arab world: Where are the new Arab icons?
Climate heroes in Iraq: A life for the trees
The hidden treasures of Sufism: In the footsteps of Rumi
Women and Islam: On Muslim women and the Islamic dress code
Iran and the Ukraine war: Ali Khamenei prepares for the future
Kashmir conflict: "An entire people is traumatised"
Egyptian series "El-Ekhteyar 3": At Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's expense
France's colonial legacy: Algerians turn away from French
Reconciling Sharia with the modern, secular state
"The Messiah of Darfur": A peacemaker in times of war
Taha Hussein: Modern Egypt's great pioneer
"Naga (Part II)" by Flèche Love: The triumph of love and life over pain
War in the Ukraine and the West: Putin's fight and our illusions
Abdolkarim Soroush: "The Sufis were prophets of pluralism"
Embracing a greener Ramadan: Islam and environmental protection
Islamic mysticism: A flute like the breath of God
War in Ukraine: What does defending Europe mean?
Muslims in the West: Can democracy tolerate Muslims at all?
Martin Accad: "Lebanon's tragedy is political sectarianism"
Why the burka is so important for right-wing populists
Algerian scholar Said Djabelkhir: Rethinking Islamic law
The Koran as a text from late antiquity: A European approach
Sudan's popular resistance: The revolution will succeed
France and terrorism: No time to heal
Debate about anti-Semitism: Dissidence and the Jewish diaspora
Women in North Africa: "The headscarf is losing its religious edge"
Tim Mackintosh-Smith: "Reading Arabic is a bit like playing chess"
Mustafa Akyol′s "The Islamic Jesus": The heart of the matter
Climate heroes in Iraq: A life for the trees
Discrimination against black people in the MENA region: Not just a Western problem
Victim-blaming – a trope of the West's failure in Afghanistan
The softening of Sharia in Iran – four harams turn halal
Hisham A. Hellyer: "You cannot rely on the West"
Islam for the 21st century? Look no further than Goethe
Future-proofing Islam: Focus on the soul of Islam
The West′s Islam debate: For all our freedoms!
Muslims in the West – the cultural go-betweens
Authors of 'War on Terror' in denial to the bitter end
Houses of healing: The success of early Arab medicine against epidemics
Fairy tales depicting independent Afghan women
Tangier/Gibraltar - A Tale of One City
Is the Taliban takeover still in Pakistan's interest?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Prey": Condemning Islam, glorifying the West
Ziad Fahmy's "Street Sounds": Egypt, and the "great clamour" of urban life
"Inequality between men and women is contrary to Islam"
"Fatma's Revenge": Netflix takes on the Turkish macho
What do the Bhagavad Gita and the Koran have in common?
Ten years Arab Spring: Arab women's rights, a genuine revolution?
Hindu nationalism in India: India's hate-filled "saffron pop"
Muslim and liberal: What constitutes contemporary Islam?
Interview with Prof Timothy Brennan: Why Edward Said still matters
Israel, Palestine – and nuance as the moral imperative
Algeria's ongoing war against women – #WeLostOneOfUs
India's farmers: "Modi and the BJP are destroying the country"
In our modern world, what constitutes contemporary Islam?
Egypt's people – nothing but a burden and a nuisance
Playing on fears of an Islamist takeover
Why blasphemy is a capital offence in some Muslim countries
Germany's parallel universe between the Jordan and the Med
Juergen Habermas' rejection of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Narendra Modi is pushing Indian society to the brink
"Palestinians need to set the terms of their own liberation"
“We refuse to be hijab-wearing princesses”
Ramadan – a feast for spirit and soul
Morocco: "Freedom of speech has long been empty rhetoric"
How Assad is preventing the return of refugees
Arsham Parsi on LGBTQ+: ''Rights are never given; we have to fight for them''