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The ambiance of the Bab al-Yemen restaurant in Boston adds to a unique dining experience for customers, Apr. 12, 2023.
Lifestyle & Belief
At Boston’s first Yemeni restaurant, food, community and tradition are on the menu this Ramadan
street intersection
Conflict
Leicester’s Indian diaspora searches for answers after violence rocks multicultural British city
Pope Francis sits with Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove (left) and Iman Khalid Latif (right), executive director of the Islamic Center and chaplain to the students at New York University, at a multi-religious gathering during a visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum i
Identity
NYU chaplain calls for a ‘true pursuit of empathy’ to heal from 9/11 aftermath
Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the West wall of the the US Capitol in Washington
Extremism
Critics say Biden’s plan to combat domestic extremism repeats past mistakes
US Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are shown standing near each other and wearing dark suits.
Global Politics
China sanctions Cruz, Rubio, Smith, Brownback for criticism
Inani Beach, an 11-mile beach on the Bay of Bengal, makes up part of Cox's Bazar 75-mile sea beach — one of the longest beaches in the world.
Business
You’re welcome to visit the longest beach in the world — unless you’re a refugee
Imam Mohamed Magid stands in front of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) mosque in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. on May 19, 2016. In a statement after the murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, Magid said, “We are devastated and heartbroken as our commu
Religion
The murder of a Virginia teen has ‘shaken up the entire American Muslim community’
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One for his first international trip as president, including stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, Brussels and at the G7 summit in Sicily, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U
Global Politics
Donald Trump’s first foreign trip is a lot like a pilgrimage. And that’s the point.
France's far-right National Front leader, Marine Le Pen (R), and Mayor of Henin-Beaumont, Steeve Briois, leave a polling station, March 2015.
Global Politics
In this French town, the National Front mayor gets support from local Muslims
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to a supporter at a Pearl Harbor Day rally aboard the USS Yorktown Memorial in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, December 7, 2015. Trump on Monday called for a ban on Muslims entering the United State
Business
Trump doesn’t have a problem doing business with wealthy Muslim investors
Ilwad Elman and her mother Fartuun Adan created the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Mogadishu.
Conflict
A Mogadishu-based mother and daughter team say youth can be brought back from religious extremism
Protestors with the Abuja "Bring Back Our Girls" chapter demonstrate at Unity Fountain in Abuja on January 25, 2015.
Conflict
A new leader in Nigeria sparks new hope for efforts against Boko Haram
An Iranian woman holds up her hand, painted with henna, under a religious sentence as she prepares for a wedding ceremony in the city of Qeshm on Qeshm Island at the Persian Gulf, November 1, 2006. The sentence reads, "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent
Belief
You’re a Muslim who’s not supposed to date. How do you find love?
Michael Muhammed Knight
Belief
This American man very nearly joined the jihad in Chechnya in the 1990s
Protesters in Lagos demanding the release of abducted teenage school girls from the remote Nigerian village of Chibok.
Conflict & Justice
How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims
Protesters in Lagos demanding the release of abducted teenage school girls from the remote Nigerian village of Chibok.
Conflict & Justice
How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims
In 2012, Tarek Hamdi, from Egypt, received his US naturalization certificate. He first applied for citizenship in 2001 but faced more than a decade of delays and denials until he won his case.
Conflict & Justice
A recently-uncovered federal program turned one man’s path to citizenship into a 11-year trek