Can we have an honest conversation; Yemeni to American?

Thanks to A. David Lewis Who Brought us “Comics & Dialogue” ! Here Is a List and Links to All of His ISLAMiCommentary Columns.

What does the latest political shift to the Right within Israel’s ruling coalition portend for Palestinians and Israeli Arabs ? Signaled by the May 26th appointment of two-time Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman as Defense Minister, this shift ...

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(Allison Kam, November 18, 2015, writing on Facebook): Saturday morning I woke up at 4:45am to go to Eyüp Sultan Mosque to pray with my new Turkish friends...

Last week the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, spent 4 days in Israel as the very-well-received guest of the government. At the center of the visit were working meetings between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and Loong.

The status of LGBTQ rights in the Muslim world today is perplexing given that Islamic history is characterized by its relative tolerance of sexual diversity and same-sex desire.

Like most college arguments, the two brothers’ dispute had a familiar parent: procrastination. It was delightfully ironic. Eren and Murat Turan were both eager to avoid preparing for their law school exams...

Duke professor Mbaye Lo highlights key elements in his current book project entitled “Justice versus Freedom: the Problem with Militant Islam.”

There is a never ending discussion between liberal and conservative minded people over freedom of choice — whether it furthers the development of our capabilities or leads us to depravity. In my native Kazakhstan ...

With the landmark Iran nuclear agreement signed this past summer, there is increasing hope in scholarly circles that American researchers & students can engage more with a country that has not had diplomatic relations with the U.S. for more than 30..

Islam is a Black American. How would this understanding complicate the discussion about Islam in America right now? How would it complicate our understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement?

Many attacks similar to 9/11 have taken place.. similar in the religious profile of the attackers and the responses that they were able to elicit...Learning about each attack and living through the consequences as a Muslim continues to be painful.

The so-called Islamic State has no chance of actually conquering Paris or Beirut with small squads of suicide attackers, armed with crude bombs and a handful of machine guns. But that is not its real goal...

The Nobel Prize-winning author, Orhan Pamuk, published a novel titled Museum of Innocence

This weekend’s discussions of America’s strategy for dealing with ISIS in light of the Paris attacks have been overly simplistic and wrongly assume that application of more and more U.S. military power is the proper way to address the ISIS threat.

Professor Michael Sells visited Duke for two talks; “Translator of Desires” — a poetry reading of the Islamic mystic Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi; and a workshop on the Qur’an and its listeners. Student Abdul Latif interviewed him.

In the almost five months since the AKP lost its parliamentary majority on June 7 — and was thereafter unable to form a coalition — the AKP launched a highly calculated and risky strategy for re-election that paid off.

by ROBERT MCCAW for ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 30, 2015: Last Friday, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley denounced the socially-corrosive evils o