Muftah is a biannual digital magazine that probes key issues of the metamodern.

Founded in 2010 as a global affairs digest, Muftah has grown into a home for critical essays and commentary at the intersections of culture, politics, and theory. We are especially interested in the tensions between modernity’s totalizing ambitions and postmodernism’s skeptical turn, and in the new possibilities that emerge beyond them.

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Editor-in-Chief at Muftah Magazine. Host of the Protean View podcast.
Managing Editor of Muftah Magazine. Co-host of the Protean View podcast. Lecturer in Religion and Politics at the University of Otago and Boston Islamic Seminary.
Ahmed is a senior editor at Muftah and PhD student at Princeton University, where he studies the theorization and creation of “Islamic” media across the modern Near East. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and political science.
Staff Writer at Muftah. Based in Prague, Czech Republic. Lecturer and researcher of social and political theory, political geography, and postcolonial international relations.
writer, filmmaker, staff writer at Muftah Magazine
Co-Editor at Muftah Magazine. UChicago MA in Islamic Studies. Worked as a legal researcher in Egypt and an academic writing instructor at PKU's School of Transnational Law in China.
Muftah is a biannual digital magazine that probes key issues of the metamodern.
Marxist Philosopher. Host of the Emancipations Podcast and Study Collective. Books: How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche (2024) & Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family (2021). Current book on Lukács.
Co-editor at Muftah Magazine, PhD student in American studies at the George Washington University
Senior editor at Muftah Magazine. Journalist and Theology student at University of Toronto. Former producer for BBC, Al Jazeera English and CBC News.
Co-editor at Muftah. MA student in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University