Waleed Abdullah probably didn’t know what was happening to him when a referee delayed kick-off of a Saudi premier league match to cut the Al-Shabab FC goalkeeper’s hair. In a country that demands conformity, Abdullah’s hair-do, involving shaved parts of…

On December 11, Mohammed Dajani along with Irshad Manji addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of Manji’s remarks. Islam needs to transition away from the past and move on to the future. The concept…

Freedom of speech and journalism is dearly embraced in this part of the world demonstrated by the unity rally in Paris, but what’s about the Muslim-majority world, from which several political leaders joined the rally?

President of Egypt Al-Sisi, despite his dictatorial overtake of power in Egypt, has said few significant words in the path of an Islamic reformation. Here is how these words simultaneously mean tolerance and intolerance

Names-ban is actually a serious issue in Saudi Arabia. Here is how the Wahhabi clerics interfered in family issues throughout the history of Saudi Arabia.