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Can the Real Islamic Art Please Stand Up?
Islamic art often lacks clear classification, and the way art galleries treat it reflects that fact.
Jul 21
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Jamal Mehmood
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Pixar, Nietzsche, and the End of LARP
Onward is a Pixar film about elves and brotherhood, but it is more accurately about the LARPing ‘20s. It manages to suggest the rather involute thesis…
Jul 17
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Ahmed Elbenni
7
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Euro-Orientalism and the Making of an "Authentic" Europe
How, when, and why was Eastern Europe cast as Europe's internal outsider—barbaric, backward, and always just behind?
Jul 14
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Robert James Warren
15
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The Price of Solidarity Is Death. The Corries Know
As Palestine activism is increasingly criminalized, the story of two young American women killed decades apart by Israeli forces reveals both the cost…
Jul 10
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Imraan Siddiqi
11
Ideology and Authenticity
Critics of woke politics often reproduce its exact excesses. Only a patient, class-based analysis can avoid the trap of "wokeism's" anti-politics.
Jul 7
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Daniel Tutt
7
June 2025
Issue 3: Authenticity
What does it mean to be authentic in our politics, within systems of power, and in acts of resistance? How is “authenticity” claimed, challenged, or…
Jun 30
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The Muftah Team
4
Commitment in the Gray
Many praise doubt as a critical virtue—but what happens when skepticism becomes an excuse to waver in the face of injustice? As Gaza burns, intellectual…
Jun 30
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Zaid Adhami
10
Is the New Syrian State Revolutionary?
Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon…
Jun 30
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Riad Alarian
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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra
17
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Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast
Jun 9
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Riad Alarian
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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra
1
May 2025
Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast
May 10
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Riad Alarian
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Ahmed Elbenni
2
For Those Who Write, Question, and Create
Muftah Magazine is hiring writers, editors, and digital strategists to push our platform further. Applications are now open—join us.
May 2
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The Muftah Team
4
April 2025
Women in the Quran with Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza
Episode 7 of the Protean View podcast
Apr 28
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Riad Alarian
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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra
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