(The Conversation) — Until recently, most people outside of Iran had never heard of the country’s morality police, let alone followed their wider role in the region. But on…

On Aug. 30, 2021, the last U.S. military planes left Afghanistan, marking the end of a 20-year U.S. military presence in the country after the 9/11 attacks. The withdrawal fulfilled…

President Joe Biden’s stop in Saudi Arabia on his four-day Middle East visit has come under criticism, given Saudi Arabia’s role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, nagging accusations of Saudi…

    Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, the founder of the Ahmadiyya community, was born in Indian Punjab in 1835. In 1888, he announced to be a divine person and to…

In theory, the U.S. has separation of church and state. In practice, public displays of Christianity are generally treated as wholesome, quintessential Americana. Non-Christian religions in the public sphere, in contrast, are…

For the past two months, the West has been transfixed by the sight of a lightly armed population resisting the might of an overwhelmingly powerful and aggressive neighbour. Ukrainian popular…

On the evening of January 29, 2017, a white Franco-Québécois gunman entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Québec City (ICCQ) after Isha prayers, and murdered six Black and brown Muslim…

Twenty years after the anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat, an entire generation of Hindu nationalists are now more convinced than ever that eliminating Muslims will improve their lives. It was the…