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What made him different from the others who were also treated in the hospital? What made him a suspect? He was Saudi.

“Being Muslim these days is like being public enemy number one,” says actor Usman Ally. “Our voices are not being heard.”“In a way, it’s a dangerous play,” he says of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, which had its world premiere at American Theater Company last month.

In an interview with Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell, Ghonim lifted the veil behind Egypt’s historic year of change.

Some students at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana were outraged by one of their professors, Maurice Eisenstein, who teaches political science at the Northwest Indiana university.He came under fire for comments made in lectures and online which many considered anti-Muslim.Eisenstein was

In the ten years since Sept. 11, many Muslim Americans feel they’ve had to deal with rising discrimination. Those who remember 9/11 at least understand how this started. But there’s a new generation of Muslim Americans who don’t. They were too young in 2001, or they weren’t yet born.

Chicago-area Muslims say they've got an additional focus during the holy month of Ramadan - the environment.Officials with the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago launched several green initiatives Monday, the first day of the Islamic month marked by fasting and p

Suburban Chicago’s Muslim population’s growing and, in many ways, integrating into existing communities.