The possibilities for Islamic political space in the Former Soviet Union continue to create support for a singular trend from many surprising constituencies argues Zviad Jughashvili. As the Saudi regime is going through its most vulnerable phase the regime’s soft-power outreach through its Wahhabi educational institutions

With few legal avenues to settle and work in the EU, migrants are forced to work in the trading bloc’s agricultural sector generating billions of euros for its economies. Ahmed Uddin looks at the hidden infrastructure of exploitation. Over 500 years ago living standards and

An opportunity to visit Iraq, specifically Najaf and Karbala provided Ahmed Kaballo with food for thought of how Islamic society does and could work. Last October I was lucky enough to be invited to witness one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the

The annual Sinterklaas Festival in the Netherands has become a testing ground for the status of ethnic minorities and their attempts to influence what it means to be Dutch. The festival is based on a legend that every December, St. Nicholas travels to the Netherlands

The accession of Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to the leadership of the Middle East monarchy has plunged the region deeper into conflict and intensified a divisive sectarian narrative, says Hafsa Kara-Mustapha When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died in January 2015 there was a sense

The blight of sectarianism has its roots in a chauvinism that has permeated our understandings of Islamic history. Eradicating it requires us to challenge these received histories and the language in which they are presented, argues Muhammad al-Asi. Dear committed Muslims, brothers and sisters. As

With the emergence of Israel as a western client state, the age-old prejudice against Jews was replaced by a corresponding hatred of Arabs that has fed the rampant Islamophobia we see today, explains Robert Inlakesh. The current climate of widespread Islamophobia in the ‘Western World’,

Provincializing materialist feminism: gender, capital and reproduction in Occupied Palestine In debunking liberal feminism as complicit in neo-liberal regimes of oppression, materialist feminism itself requires scrutiny.  Its own underpinnings when discussed particularly in the light of the occupation of Palestine, finding it as guilty of