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Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the spiritual and ethical sensibilities of his Sufi upbringing. Engaging with traditions of ritual, embodiment, and devotion, Ahmed draws on these frameworks to reflect on queerness beyond identity...

On Feb. 28 , videos emerged online showing the aftermath of the Iran war ’s opening strikes on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. In one video taken on Pastor Street, a few alleys away from the compound,...

A few weekends ago, during a Premier League match between Leeds United and Man City, play was briefly paused to allow Muslim players to open their fast . This has been standard practice since 2021 when the holy month...

Forget the Gulf as you have known it until now. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A System in flux In the contemporary international system, the Sunni-majority countries centered around the Persian Gulf...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a virtual appearance at a "far-right conference" in Budapest last weekend, designed to boost his key European ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as he slumbers into next month's general...

A Conservative MP has come under fire for calling public prayers during Ramadan "an act of dominance" in reference to an event organised in London’s Trafalgar Square , where people were invited to break their fast and...

Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is shocking, but not for the obvious reason. It is not shocking simply because it...

The US is seeing a spike in Islamophobia in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran , adding to an already high level of hate over the past three years. A report issued on 9 March by the Centre...

President Donald Trump has issued fresh threats in the context of the Iran war. Despite his boasts that the Iranian military is annihilated, he is pushing for Washington’s European NATO allies to join U.S. efforts to break Iranian de facto...

Last week, Labour finally revealed its long-awaited definition of Islamophobia, which incidentally, it is now terming ‘anti-Muslim hate’. Some Muslims have welcomed the shift from the term ‘islamophobia’, which pathologises discrimination against Muslims as a justifiable fear. Others have accused the...

From quiet household preparations to the crowded lanes of Old Delhi, Ramadan unfolds through prayer, commerce, community, and resilience amid a climate of communal polarisation. Photo essay by Omama A. Talha and Fatima Zohra. Home to 11% of the world’s...

In the crucible of conflict, narratives are forged with haste. They glide across television screens, seep through the veins of social media, and echo in the corridors of political power, shaping how entire societies come to understand the chaos unfolding...

The debacle that Trump and Netanyahu have gotten their nations into Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab After last week’s excursion into culture and politics (and extra marks to those who spotted...

Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel was staged as a triumph of “strategic partnership,” but it landed as something more cynical: political cover for an Israeli leadership facing unprecedented legal and diplomatic scrutiny. Modi addressed the Knesset, met Benjamin...

Two men accused of igniting homemade bombs at a chaotic anti-Islam protest outside the New York City mayor's mansion told police they were inspired by Islamic State group and were charged on Monday with federal terrorism-related...

Almost half of all articles about Muslims in the UK in 2025 contained "measurable bias", research by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) revealed, in a landmark study examining how British Muslims are portrayed. By analysing 40,913...

In early February, the Fiqh Council of North America released a fatwah permitting the giving of zakah funds to political campaigns in America. This topic spurred significant debate, including a dissenting fatwah from other members of the Fiqh Council of...

The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display. While the official White House X account posts video montages featuring video games and...

By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel...

Credit: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) By Azza Karam NEW YORK, Mar 6 2026 (IPS) In recent months, the language surrounding the escalating confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran has taken on a tone that...

This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. When Your Teen is Depressed There is a conversation happening in Muslim homes across the East and West right now...

In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next Jonathan Cook is the author of three...

- - - - Xi in a waiting game China’s muted response to the Israel/US war on Iran, which began on February 28, is both an illustration of Tehran’s lack of friends and of the sure-footed self-interest guiding Chinese diplomacy....

On February 28, the world watched in stunned silence as reports confirmed a devastating U.S.-Israeli kinetic operation in Tehran. According to reports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a number of other senior leaders were killed in the massive strikes....

By their shameful, spineless stance on the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, European leaders have doomed whatever remained of their global influence and their pretensions to promote a “rules-based international order.” They are also helping to dig the graves...

By Shoaib Rasheed Maulana Azam Hashmi (1915-1973) was born to a family of religious scholars in the Ferghana valley in modern-day Uzbekistan. He witnessed his homeland fall to communism under the new Soviet regime shortly after World War I. He was...

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has triggered an immediate and emotionally charged response from Shia outside Iran, from senior clerics and militant leaders across the Muslim world, to protesters on the streets of South Asian and...

One of the founding rationales for not allowing Bosnia to become an independent state was preventing Bosniaks from exercising full democratic sovereignty over their own country, because a majority-Muslim democracy in Europe was considered a security risk Esad Širbegović is a...

In an unprecedented demonstration of communal solidarity during the holy month of Ramadan, Dahabshiil, on Thursday, organized simultaneous mass iftar gatherings across five major cities: Hargeisa in the Republic of Somaliland, Mogadishu and Baidoa in Somalia, Djibouti in the Republic...

An Israeli-funded firm is hoping to boost evangelical support for Israel through a guided Bible study program that features interviews with Israel Defense Forces soldiers, theologians, and West Bank settlers, according to a new website uncovered by RS. The firm, California-based...

British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department on Wednesday and met with at least one US official, social media posts from Robinson and a department official showed. "In America making alliances & friendships, today I had...

Donald Trump ’s electoral success relies heavily on the large evangelical Christian segment of the U.S. population, which explains why he has adopted the strategy of pretending to be a Christian himself. However preposterous this may seem, his...

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of MuslimMatters.org. In Defense Of Zakat for Political Campaigns: An Argument From An American Muslim Political Operative ﷽...

La Turchia continua a rappresentare per Washington un alleato utile, non più necessario, e certamente problematico Segue nostro Telegram . Una storia d’amore, ma non troppo Le relazioni tra gli Stati Uniti e la Turchia rappresentano uno dei pilastri strategici...

This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim youth are actually facing. The Loneliness No One Talks About There’s a specific kind of loneliness that Muslim teens...

Co-authored by Mufti Abdullah Nana and Dr. Shafi Lodhi Picture the last time you donated during Ramadan. Maybe you were scrolling through your phone after taraweeh , watching a video of children in Gaza searching through rubble. Or perhaps...

Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...

Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...

Turkey continues to be a useful ally for Washington, but no longer a necessary one, and certainly a problematic one. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A love story, but not quite Relations...

If occultism doesn’t publicly profess everything it believes in, is it possible that militant atheism is the exoteric layer of a Hermetic religion? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Epstein Files revealed...

A senior adviser to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) has issued a sharp public critique of Wahhabism , the religious doctrine historically associated with Saudi Arabia, highlighting a widening rift between the two Gulf powers. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla,...