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- News & Politics, Feature Dec 10, 2018
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The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
- Film, Small Screen Apr 30, 2018
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The Girl Deep Down Below explores how it feels to be Muslim in America right now
It’s kind of like being trapped in a horror movie.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 20, 2017
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After Trump's air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus
Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
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An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth
DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2017
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Muslim, Latina, and attacked from all sides
Chicago-area resident Diana Cruz on living in Trump’s America
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Mar 15, 2017
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What’s with the hijab wearers at the orgy?
A kinkster is curious. Plus: When bondage hurts feelings, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2017
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‘We won today—we'll see what happens tomorrow’: Protesters and volunteer lawyers brace for long fight after detainees are freed from O’Hare
Thousands of people flocked to O'Hare Saturday afternoon to defy Trump's immigration and travel ban.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2016
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Examining what's changed a year after the Laquan McDonald video, and other Chicago news
Also, the Cubs will have to pay nearly $400,000 to repair Grant Park after the massive World Series victory rally.
- News & Politics, Politics Nov 22, 2016
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Chicago Muslims: ‘We’ve been yelling, but no one’s been listening’
CAIR’s Hoda Katebi says her group is bracing for a Trump presidency by beefing up its legal team—and promoting self-defense classes.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 28, 2016
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Silk Road Rising's Mosque Alert is alarmingly relevant
After five years of development, Jamil Khoury's play about xenophobia opens in an ever-more-xenophobic political moment.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2016
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A Trump delegate born in Uzbekistan stands by her man
"When you look at a man of that stature, it makes you feel safe, protected, like he'll take care of you," Lora Drobetsky says.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2016
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The Wheaton case against professor Hawkins
Living one's faith at work sounds doable enough—and wasn't that exactly what poli-sci professor Larycia Hawkins had been attempting?
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2015
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Jesse Jackson calls for solidarity with Syrian refugees 'in the face of bigotry'
“You cannot worship a refugee on the run on Sunday and lock out refugees on Monday,” Jackson said.
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 8, 2014
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Out of The Past
Asghar Farhadi, director of the Oscar-winning A Separation, returns with another morality play.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 18, 2013
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Bean pie, my brother?
The Nation of Islam's iconic dessert is still around, if you know where to look.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 22, 2013
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Our ignorance of our enemies might not be bliss, but it's close enough
Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 7, 2013
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Anti-Arab bias is an easy target for satire, but Invasion! misses the mark
Anna Bahow directs Jonas Hassen Khemiri's unfocused play for Silk Road Rising.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Jul 17, 2013
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On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship
There's nothing uniquely Middle Eastern about a news medium that hears one voice much more clearly than another.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 9, 2012
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The demons within
A recovering Muslim struggles with enablers in Disgraced
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 22, 2011
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Jamil Khoury, the theater activist
'We love the art form, but that's not where we're coming from. It's the desire to impact change.'
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jan 20, 2011
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1973
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2010
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Burn a Koran Day Comes to Chicago
Police are investigating a burnt Koran left at a local Muslim community center.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2009
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I Bring What I Love
Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2009
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Nice Bombs
Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.
