Books & arts
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
International
27 April 2024
March’s terrorist attack in Moscow highlights Russia’s often-fraught dealings with Muslim peoples and states
International
25 September 2018
Uighur families in Adelaide are watching the crackdown in China’s Xinjiang province with intensifying alarm
Books & arts
3 October 2017
Books | Islamic State has become adept at recruiting those who are already attracted to violence
Essays & reportage
10 March 2016
Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
International
18 December 2015
We should avoid exceptionalising jihadists, argues Olivier Roy. Otherwise we reinforce the fascination of rebels looking for a cause
Books & arts
20 March 2015
Books | The Islamic State seemed to appear out of nowhere, writes Matthew Gray, but its origins lie in decades of conflict and bad decisions
International
14 April 2014
The likely makeup of the next Indonesian government gives cause for optimism, writes Dominic Berger
6 April 2014
Parachuted into the senior ranks of the National Awakening Party, the ethnic Chinese businessman has helped changed the equation among Islamic parties in Indonesia, writes…
Books & arts
19 March 2014
Lila Abu-Lughod set out to discover “why the emerging Western common sense about Muslim women did not capture what I knew from experience and from reading history.”…
International
2 December 2010
Malaysia’s Free Gaza campaign is pitched at both international and domestic audiences, writes Amrita Malhi
International
6 August 2009
How international involvement helped fuel the growth of militancy
International
11 May 2009
Last month’s election result shows falling popular support for Islamic parties, with implications for July’s presidential poll, writes Greg Fealy