On Openings: A Message from the Editor-in-Chief

After a five-year hiatus, Muftah Magazine is back with a new mission and vision for the future.

Selecting the right words to inaugurate the return of a small magazine is a peculiar task. Editors often feel the duty, perhaps even the compulsion, to make grand pronouncements about their publication—to articulate a bold vision, and the distinct urgency of realizing it, usually in the service of some neglected ideal. Yet an honest reckoning would sugg…