Tag: Islam
Yes, Muslims are portrayed negatively in American media – 2 political...
Erik Bleich, Middlebury and A. Maurits van der Veen, William & Mary
The warm welcome Americans and Europeans have...
American Muslim women are finding a unique religious space at a...
Tazeen M. Ali, Washington University in St Louis
As Ramadan draws to a close, Muslims around the world prepare...
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the...
Suicide of Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi exposes the ‘freedom and violence’...
Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University
LGBTQ communities worldwide are mourning the death of 30-year-old Sarah Hegazi, a queer Egyptian activist who ended her life...
Long before face masks, Islamic healers tried to ward off disease...
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
Just as many now don face masks and do breathing exercises to protect against COVID-19 – despite debate around the...
What Islamic hygienic practices can teach when coronavirus is spreading
Rose S. Aslan, California Lutheran University
As outbreaks of the coronavirus spread throughout the world, people are reminded over and again to limit physical contact,...
Women in Arab countries find themselves torn between opportunity and tradition
Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona
Arab women, long relegated to the private sphere by law and social custom, are gaining new access to public life.
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Silicon Valley’s latest fad is dopamine fasting – and that may...
A. Trevor Sutton, Concordia Seminary
Silicon Valley’s newest fad is dopamine fasting, or temporarily abstaining from “addictive” activities such as social media, music, internet gaming...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
