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This past Spring Semester at American University’s School of International Service, the course Researching Islam allowed students to explore the origins of the Islamic faith and develop their understanding through the contemporary lens of Muslims in...

“I am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its Gate.” This saying is attributed to the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings upon him). It not only immortalizes Ali but also captures his defining characteristic. Ali...

Despite all the hoopla of their growing numbers, US Muslims, in effect, remain a non-entity...Read More

Pakistani-American scholar Dr. Agha Saeed, who devoted his life to amplifying the political voice of the American Muslim community, passed away in Monterey, California. Tributes poured in from academics, political activists, and leaders of Muslim organizations...

By Akbar Ahmed and Amitav Acharya   The election of the Biden-Harris ticket in the US Presidential election is a moment of reckoning for the South Asian community in the US and the US policy towards South...

The United States and Pakistan may be oceans apart, and the COVID-19 may be impacting the two nations differently. But they are dealing with the same common invisible threat. And that set of contrasts and similarities...

By Iftikhar Ali in New York and Huma Nisar in Washington D.C. The grim milestone means the United States has lost more people to the novel coronavirus than the combined casualties of conflicts since the 1950s...

The hard work done by health care workers and determination of the affected people has paid off in many cases of coronavirus infections, as more than one million people including 175,000 Americans have recovered from the...

Image: Pahalgam Valley, Credit: KennyOMG /Wikimedia In one of the most poignant assessments of the crisis that has plagued Kashmir since New Delhi’s revocation of its autonomous status August last year, an America journalist found on her trip...

Pakistani-American Sumbul Siddiqui, a legal aid attorney, has been elected as mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, winning confidence of her fellow city councilors. Siddiqui’s election marks another high-profile example of American inclusiveness in these times of polarizing...