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Similar to Bad Bunny’s music, Puerto Rican Muslims’ lives challenge how we think about race, religion and belonging in the Americas.

Edited by Ken Chitwood (Bloomsbury, 2026)

When Sarah Zouak was a graduate student in France, an adviser told her that the phrase “Muslim feminist” was a contradiction in terms. Not only did she pursue a thesis on Muslim feminism, she went on to co-found French Muslim feminist group, Lallab.

Parveena Ahanger is the chairperson of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and has been at the forefront of the cause for human rights in Jammu and Kashmir.

This video was produced by Kim Lawton as part of “Spiritual Exemplars: A Global Project on Engaged Spirituality” at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, with support from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust.

Tijuana has long been a hub for migrants. Hundreds of thousands arrive there annually before trying to cross the border into the U.S. There are no publicly available statistics on the number of Muslims among them, but Hamza is far from the only one.

Volume 3 of Healing Heartwork, Exploring Joy, will focus on humor and comedy in Islam, alongside other modalities for cultivating joy and lightness of being, both in our everyday lives and in our work in the world. 

Yet her grandfather had insisted that it was indeed Palestine, and that just decades before she was born, a time had existed in which Muslims, Christians and Jews in the region had easily been friends, and in which they could cross the now impassable borders together between countries.

By his own telling, as a young man Eboo Patel was something of a jerk. Of course, Eboo Patel grew up. And Interfaith Youth Core has grown up, too. In an acknowledgment of that maturity, IFYC was rechristened this year as Interfaith America.