Muslim

a woman with dark hair on a beach

For one woman with an eating disorder, Ramadan was a chance to blend in

Women & Gender

Adeline Hocine saw the holy month — when everyone would abstain from food and water — as an opportunity to hide her illness.

A woman wearing a headwrap and as shimmering blue and gold dress stands in front of a camera, with her hands to her hips.

Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping

Culture
Torn up Quran in Canada

Canadian groups are lashing out about Muslim prayer in schools

Education
Sarah Zouak is one of the co-founders of Lallab, a new webzine featuring the voices of Muslim women in France.

One group aims to give Muslim women in France a voice

Religion
Imam Khalid Latif

This NYPD chaplain is young, male and Muslim. He’s been told ‘those things don’t go together so well right now.’

Jobs
Abu Radwan and his family converted to Christianity after they fled Syria to Lebanon. He says it's a genuine conversion, though he does say he thinks it might help him get resettled in the West.

Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity

Conflict

Converting from Islam to Christianity can be a dangerous thing in the Middle East. In some countries, it’s illegal. Yet some Syrian refugees are converting, despite receiving threats.

Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "

Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.

Conflict

“I think I was the only living thing walking there, with my bicycle. … I’ve never felt as miserable as that day.”

Protestors gather at San Francisco International Airport to oppose Donald Trump's "Muslim Ban."

Donald Trump’s ‘disruptive’ leadership style presents huge problems for Homeland Security

Conflict

Juliette Kayyem was an official in the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Obama and is now an analyst for various media. She says the ban on Muslims from seven nations entering the US will be a big problem for her former colleagues.

Community members take part in a protest to demand a stop hate crimes during the funeral service of Imam Maulama Akonjee, and Thara Uddin in New York City.

How likely are you to be the victim of a hate crime?

Justice

Based on your race, religion and ethnicity, this tool calculates whether your chance of being the target of a hate crime has increased since 9/11.

People light candles on the ground

Born with two strikes? These Somali Muslims in Minnesota find a home with Black Lives Matter

Justice

It isn’t easy being Muslim and black in Minnesota, where there have been two police killings of black men in less than a year. But Somali immigrants are finding power in joining with their African American neighbors.It isn’t easy being Muslim and black in Minnesota, where there have been two police killings of black men in less than a year. But Somali immigrants are finding power in joining with their African American neighbors.