Islam

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  • Islam's black slaves

    The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today.
    By Suzy Hansen April 5, 2001

  • Save the children, or the Buddhas get it

    Afghanistan's roving ambassador tells a Southern California student association why he was ready to "blow a statue" himself.
    By Carina Chocano March 22, 2001

  • Shutting down the Tehran Spring

    How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people.
    By Ben Barber January 11, 2001

  • Peace without compromise?

    The failure of the Camp David summit could spell war, and soon -- or it could be the best thing for the Middle East peace process.
    By Flore de Preneuf August 10, 2000

  • Humanitarians or terrorist supporters?

    U.S.-based Muslim and Arab foundations say they're feeding orphaned children. Critics say they're aiding Palestinian extremists.
    By Rob Mank July 11, 2000

  • Dancing at the blood festival

    Armed only with curiosity and a stained pair of pants, our correspondent tries to make sense of the Islamic Feast of the Sacrifice in Aqaba, Jordan.
    By Rolf Potts May 9, 2000

  • Living in shimmering disequilibrium

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for spiritualizing the environmental movement as Earth endures the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years.
    By Fred Branfman April 22, 2000

  • Harlem's un-Sharpton

    Rudy Giuliani finds an ally in Imam Pasha, a black Muslim leader with a pro-Giuliani, pro-police message.
    By Rob Mank April 6, 2000

  • "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid

    A veteran journalist relates the full horror -- brutality, oppression of women and genocide -- of the new Afghanistan.
    By Jonathan Groner April 6, 2000

  • Allah's pulpit thumper

    Louis Farrakhan makes a bid to unify Islam in America -- and to be its No. 1 evangelist.
    By Ted Kleine February 28, 2000

  • Iran's chess war

    The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.
    By Flore de Preneuf February 18, 2000

  • Iran's revolution may be in jeopardy

    Will the overwhelming number of young voters tip the scales in the elections? Or will their apathy prove a greater threat to reformers than the mullahs?
    By Vivienne Walt February 18, 2000

  • The rise and fall of erotica

    Steamy soft-core cinema is phenomenally popular in Indonesia, but the government is slowing down production.
    By Hank Hyena February 17, 2000

  • Bawdy blasphemers arrested in Ramadan sex scandal

    At the turn of the millennium, Kuwaiti sex police are trying to staunch the flow of Western sex sins from corrupting their land.
    By Hank Hyena January 7, 2000

  • The day I became a Muslim

    At an Indian mosque on a blazing summer afternoon, a moment that I had only dreamed of came true.
    By Zachary Karabell December 11, 1999

  • Making bombs in Zanzibar

    An enigmatic encounter with a would-be African terrorist leaves an expatriate wondering about truth and faith.
    By Frank Bures December 8, 1999

  • Porn-hungry Emirates purchase satellite dirty dishes

    Citizens of the Arab republic have found a way to skirt strict censorship laws.
    By Hank Hyena October 29, 1999

  • Old Testament prophets were pimps, says novelist

    Never underestimate the effectiveness of blasphemy as a marketing strategy. Plus: Good news! You can join the Mile High Club with a stranger and stay married.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 23, 1999

  • Arabian nighties

    Among Egypt's minarets and mosques, covered women buy a ton of teddies.
    By Susan Hack October 8, 1999

  • "Everyone has their own clichés"

    Richard Thompson gives us a peek -- just a peek, mind you -- into his bag of musical tricks.
    By David Bowman August 31, 1999

  • Cat Stevens

    By the early '70s he was rich, famous, filling stadiums and partying like the pop star he'd become. But before the decade was over he walked away from it all.
    By Amy Reiter August 14, 1999

  • The walls around the garden

    Tara Bahrampour, author of "To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America," talks about balancing between two cultures and glimpsing the crumbling boundaries and lush center of Iranian life.
    By Fiona Morgan March 8, 1999

  • Marriage among the mullahs

    The directors of "Divorce Iranian Style" speak out about unhappy marriages, Islamic law and the rights of women.
    By Cynthia Joyce December 16, 1998

  • Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind -- or a fall guy?

    When you get past the vague claims of anonymous 'intelligence sources,' the Clinton administration is asking the public to accept on faith its claim that Osama bin Laden is an evil Islamic Dr. No.
    By Loren Jenkins August 27, 1998

  • Newsreal: Turkish delight

    Salon has learned of a U.S. arms-for-human-rights deal with Turkey that the Clinton administration thinks is important to preserve Turkey's stability but opponents say it's arming the torturers.
    By Jonathan Broder March 2, 1998
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