Islamophobia

Letter from Berlin

On the situation in Germany in the wake of October 7.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Race and Sweden’s Fascist Turn

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

  • Tobias Hübinette

Salman Rushdie and the Neoliberal Culture Wars

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

  • Faisal Devji

Twenty Years Later, Guantánamo Is Everywhere

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

  • Baher Azmy

The Distributed Empire of the War on Terror

Drone attacks and U.S. involvement in Pakistan.

  • Madiha Tahir

What Does Europe Have Against Halal?

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.

  • John R. Bowen

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Is There a Right to Heresy?

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
  • Nadia Marzouki

Terror and Abolition

Counterterrorism largely ensnares people of color.

  • Atiya Husain

The Legality and Reality of Torture

Our best writing from our archives on why torture is not the same thing as interrogation.

Rethinking Birthright

We need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.

  • Stephanie DeGooyer

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of attacking Arab, Black, and queer people.

  • Emmaia Gelman

Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Amna A. Akbar
with responses from
  • Wadie Said
  • Sudha Setty
  • Lisa Stampnitzky
  • Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
  • Tarek Z. Ismail
  • Sahar F. Aziz

The Myth of the Muslim Country

Calling the nations subjected to the ban Muslim is sloppy, misguided, and dangerous.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Under Western Eyes

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

  • John R. Bowen
  • Aziz Rana

France after Charlie Hebdo

France’s own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.

  • John R. Bowen
with responses from
  • Didier Fassin
  • Arthur Goldhammer
  • Haroon Moghul
  • Joan Wallach Scott
  • Joseph Massad
  • Mayanthi L. Fernando
  • Michèle Lamont & Nicolas Duvoux
  • David D. Laitin
  • Maleiha Malik

Islamophobia Is Bad for Business

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment has cost the United States and the West a number of business opportunities.

  • Massoud Hayoun

Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen

Time Out of Joint

Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm
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