• Border crossings in Brooklyn

    The post-9/11 sweeps left many immigrant families without friends or money. A Pakistani Muslim and an Indian Hindu worked together to help them.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 22, 2004

  • The rule of the turban

    Paul Wolfowitz eulogized the fallen Shiite leader as an Iraqi Abraham Lincoln. But his group seems more intent on making Iraq conform to the principles of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
    By Mary Jacoby June 16, 2004

  • The prisoner-abuse scandal at home

    The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 19, 2004

  • Never the twain shall meet

    "Occidentalism" offers a grand theory about why Arabs and Muslims feel the way they do about the West -- but ignores what the West has done to them.
    By Christopher John Farah May 17, 2004

  • Anti-Semitic -- or anti-Sharon?

    When Western leaders met in Berlin this week to confront an ugly upsurge in European anti-Semitism, they pointed fingers not just at neo-Nazis and militant Muslims -- but also at the European left.
    By Alix Christie April 30, 2004

  • Banished from the American dream

    The Kesbehs were a hardworking immigrant family with a successful business and deep roots in Houston. But after 9/11, the U.S. kicked them, along with thousands of other Arab and Muslim families, out of the country. Now, in a land the children barely know, they wonder why their life has been shattered.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 26, 2004

  • "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle

    Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
    By Gary Kamiya January 30, 2004

  • What's wrong with American men and women?

    My skillful Turkish bed mate told me, in vivid detail.
    By Ann Marlowe July 29, 2003

  • To know America is to love America?

    Advertising maven Charlotte Beers is trying to sell the U.S. to the Muslim world, but nobody's buying it.
    By Michelle Goldberg December 19, 2002

  • Justice behind closed doors

    Some 600 immigrants have been deported after secret hearings since the 9/11 attacks. Now the policy appears headed for the Supreme Court.
    By Dave Lindorff September 26, 2002

  • Suddenly, the U.N. backs Bush

    The president's speech left the world governing body little choice but to get tough on Saddam.
    By Ian Williams September 14, 2002

  • "Betrayed" by Bush

    Rattled by government raids on their homes and American support for Israel in the Middle East's escalating violence, American Muslims rethink their 2000 endorsement of the president.
    By Eric Boehlert April 2, 2002

  • I studied in Yemen with John Walker

    He was fresh from Marin, more Catholic than the pope and the other students derisively nicknamed him Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens).
    By Joshua Mortensen January 4, 2002

  • Round up the Jews!

    If it's OK to racially profile Muslims and Arabs now, it should have been fine to single out Jews during the 1950s Communist-spy panic.
    By Ron Unz December 6, 2001

  • The Afghan handshake

    Nearly a decade ago in Peshawar, a holy warrior tried to warn me where radical Islam was heading -- then gave me his watch.
    By Dalton Conley November 21, 2001

  • Why Osama bin Laden is an enemy of Islam

    How can Muslims proclaim the al-Qaida leader's innocence while simultaneously lionizing him for his blows against the U.S.?
    By M.A. Muqtedar Khan November 14, 2001

  • "A struggle for the soul of the 21st century"

    A speech given by former President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University on Nov. 7.
    By   November 10, 2001

  • "Islamism is fascism"

    Daniel Pipes says leading American Muslim groups want Islamic law to rule the U.S. -- even if they won't admit it -- and must be carefully watched.
    By Eric Boehlert November 9, 2001

  • The Muslim population riddle

    Hampered by Islam's relative newness in America, as well as political sensitivities, experts struggle and spar over estimates of the number of Muslims practicing here.
    By Eric Boehlert October 31, 2001

  • Who speaks for African-American Muslims?

    Louis Farrakhan's bitter voice may get the most media play, but he represents only a sliver of black Islam -- and after Sept. 11, the more orthodox mainstream wants to be heard.
    By Eric Boehlert October 23, 2001

  • Stand beside her

    Fearing a post-terrorism backlash, many Muslim and Arab-American women are afraid to leave their homes. Volunteers are helping to make them feel safe.
    By King Kaufman October 22, 2001

  • Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA

    Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans.
    By Amy Standen October 12, 2001

  • Suspicious minds

    Many Arab rulers would like to support the Western war on Osama bin Laden. But their subjects disagree, and have a laundry list of reasons why.
    By Eric Boehlert October 9, 2001

  • Islam's flawed spokesmen

    Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups.
    By Jake Tapper September 26, 2001

  • "I can't believe this is America"

    At the Arab Club of a Manhattan college, accusations and racial slurs make it hard to grieve.
    By Rebecca Segall September 26, 2001
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