Anusha Rizvi’s JioHotstar film The Great Shamsuddin Family offers an intimate, unexoticised portrait of ordinary Muslim life, a rarity in Indian cinema, set amid family banter, work, relationships, fear and uncertainty, exploring identity, vulnerability and resilience without reducing its characters to stereotypes
Muslim thinkers and leaders have reinterpreted Prophet Muhammad’s seventh-century Medina Charter from Indonesia to Malaysia, Morocco, Turkey, and Sudan, seeking peaceful coexistence, human dignity, and a more inclusive Muslim world based on a vision of pluralism, justice, religious freedom, and common citizenship
Britain’s imperial border-making, from Ireland and the Sykes-Picot settlement in West Asia to the Radcliffe Line in India, carved through communities and territories, disrupting longstanding social and economic ties, causing displacements, sectarian tensions and conflicts whose consequences continue to shape Ireland, West Asia and South Asia today
The global spice trade transformed Indonesia into the centre of European colonial rivalry, where Dutch conquest and the Banda genocide gave way to a post-colonial nation shaped by Sukarno’s anti-colonial vision, the Bandung Conference, enduring Indian civilisational influences, and cultural traditions such as wayang, the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata
Islamophobia is the product of centuries of narratives stretching from medieval Europe and the Crusades through colonialism, Orientalism, and the modern media age, with anti-Muslim stereotypes repeatedly reshaped to suit changing political, religious, and ideological contexts, portraying Muslims as threats, outsiders, or security risks
Nahdlatul Ulama emerged in 1926 after the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the reshaping of the Muslim world, developing a model rooted in scholarship, pluralism, and compassion that evolved into the world’s largest Muslim organization and a leading advocate of Humanitarian Islam, interfaith cooperation, and global peace
When Anwar Ibrahim was making his name as a promising student leader in the 1970s, an Indian economist’s works were among those the future Malaysian Prime Minister immersed himself in
Did Imran Khan’s refusal to host US bases, Russia outreach, and tensions with Pakistan’s military reshape the country’s trajectory, leading to his removal as the prime minister and incarceration on trumped-up charges?
The attack apparently targeting Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ dinner is the latest in a long history of assassination attempts on US presidents and political violence in America
From the war against ISIS a decade back to the American-Israeli attack on Iran in 2026, the Battle of Karbala fought in 680 CE continues to shape how resistance, sacrifice, and justice are understood across the Shia world
