Islam

Values Voters

How Malaysia's right-wing Islamist party became the country's best hope for political reform.

BY DUSTIN ROASA | OCTOBER 12, 2010

Mainstreaming Hate

Geert Wilders is slowly but surely making Islamophobia an accepted element of political rhetoric in the Netherlands -- and he's got his eyes on the United States, next.

BY FERRY BIEDERMANN | OCTOBER 4, 2010

Minority Rules

How Sweden's far-right rose from neo-Nazi skinheads to populist Muslim-baiters to the country's new kingmakers.

BY PAUL O'MAHONY | SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Constitutional Crisis

A looming referendum in Turkey has once again turned into a showdown between secular and religious forces.

BY AFSIN YURDAKUL | SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Talibanization of America

Viewed from Pakistan, the rise of U.S. Islamophobia looks depressingly familiar.

BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

America's First Muslim President

Muslim Americans helped elect George W. Bush, but now they're leaving the Republican Party in droves. It didn't have to be this way.

BY SUHAIL A. KHAN | AUGUST 23, 2010

The King of Iraq

As U.S. troops leave the country, one man stands to benefit above all: Moqtada al-Sadr.

BY BABAK DEHGHANPISHEH | AUGUST 20, 2010

The Holy Month

Muslims around the world prepare -- and pray -- as Ramadan begins.

AUGUST 11, 2010

Life and Death of a Radical Mosque

Al-Quds, the Hamburg mosque that hosted several of the 9/11 attackers, has been closed down. The only question now is: Why on Earth did it take 10 years?

BY IAN JOHNSON | AUGUST 10, 2010

My Pen Pal, the Jihadist

How a young Virginia man charged with supporting terrorists in Somalia became my online sparring partner -- and why he is so dangerous.

BY JARRET BRACHMAN | JULY 29, 2010

The Fatwa

Ayatollah Khomeini and the legacy of the Salman Rushdie affair. 

BY KENAN MALIK | JULY 15, 2010

Bad Politics Is Better Than No Politics

Why Iraq's bloody democracy isn't so terrible.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 9, 2010

Resistance Land

Hezbollah's new tourist park, meant to indoctrinate visitors with the ideals of the Islamic Resistance, may be the latest sign that another war is on the horizon.

BY ANDREW TABLER | JULY 8, 2010

The Sheikh Who Got Away

How the United States got Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric dead wrong -- and missed a chance to change the Middle East forever.

BY DAVID KENNER | JULY 6, 2010

Abdullah's No Reformer

Those who predicted the Saudi monarch would bring real change to the kingdom had it wrong. His real goal has been to tighten his family's grip on power.

BY TOBY C. JONES | JUNE 28, 2010

I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand

How Saudi Arabia and the United States have grown apart.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JUNE 28, 2010

Bank Shot

Nine years after 9/11, getting between extremist groups and their funding remains an uphill struggle.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 21, 2010

Ramadan

The geopolitics of the world's other biggest holiday.

BY VALI NASR | JULY/AUGUST 2010

The Nights' Tale

The Middle East's most famous work of literature is beloved everywhere -- except the Middle East.

BY URSULA LINDSEY | JUNE 7, 2010

Big Brotherhood Is Watching

America's clumsy, misguided attempts to reach out to European Muslims.

BY IAN JOHNSON | MAY 26, 2010

Mikey Weinstein's Crusade

Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.

BY STEPHEN GLAIN | MAY 25, 2010

How the Dreyfus Affair Explains Sarkozy's Burqa Ban

Militant secularism has a long, troubled history in France, from paranoia over nun's wimples to the Dreyfusard anti-Jesuit campaigns. Where will it end?

BY RUTH HARRIS | MAY 12, 2010

Sheikh to Terrorists: Go to Hell

A Pakistani cleric declares jihad on suicide bombers. And the story is just beginning.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | APRIL 14, 2010

Morocco's Misguided War on Terror

How the persecution of Islamists across North Africa, in the name of fighting terrorism, is sowing the seeds for future instability.

BY AIDA ALAMI | APRIL 9, 2010

The Islamist Flirtation

Mohamed ElBaradei's growing ties to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood call into question his commitment to liberal reform.

BY ILAN BERMAN | APRIL 2, 2010

The Day the War Came Back to Moscow

Thoughts after Russia's subway attacks.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MARCH 29, 2010

Russia's Terror Goes Viral

The metro bombings in Moscow make clear that terrorism is far from exorcized from Russia. So where has it been hiding these last few, quiet years? The Web.

BY PAUL QUINN-JUDGE | MARCH 29, 2010

The Green Movement Is More Than Facebook

Why Feb. 11 was no failure for Iran's opposition.

BY MOHAMMAD SADEGHI | MARCH 8, 2010

Obama's Middle East Democracy Problem

The Obama administration’s quiet approach to promoting freedom in the Arab world is about to meet its first major test.

BY BARBARA SLAVIN | MARCH 5, 2010

Life Inside Somalia’s Bunker Government

An interview with Information Minister Dahir Gelle, as told to FP's Elizabeth Dickinson.

MARCH 5, 2010