Posts under ‘Media’

The tag line of Global Voices is “the world is talking. Are you listening?” I was not, until now. Its refreshing content has convinced me to add Global Voices to my daily media diet. If you are looking for more sources of information on the Muslim world, you might want to take a look as [...]

A member of the Inside Islam executive committee, Uli Schamiloglu is also a professor in Languages and Cultures of Asia (a department that he helped to create) and the Director of UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program, among many other things. I first met him in 2007 when he was a guest on the Here on [...]

For many Americans, Al Jazeera is probably the most well-known and most misunderstood news organization from the Muslim world. Launched in Arabic in 1996 by the Emir of Qatar, a tiny country in the Persian Gulf, Al Jazeera’s ambition is to become an independent and influential television network on the scope and caliber of BBC [...]

Like many Americans, I knew little about Islam before 9/11 and had little interest. Eight years later, I have greater interest but still feel uninformed and frustrated. Even though the media and the Internet are filled with information about Islam, much of it is confusing, dubious, or outright wrong. I’m not sure which media sources, [...]

I recently listened to a show from “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” a sister program to Inside Islam’s Here on Earth on Wisconsin Public Radio. The show titled “Reclaiming Islam” aired on June 12th, 2009, and featured a number of interesting guests: Reza Aslan, Tissa Hami, Christopher Caldwell, Youssou N’Dour & Chai Vasarhelyi, and [...]

In this short digital story, Kemal H. Karpat, a prominent historian, talks about Islam and media in America. Dr. Karpat is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Today’s guest post is from Daily Beast blogger and author of How to Win A Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the War on Terror Reza Aslan. If you’d like to learn more about his new book, see the interview posted today by Editor-and-Chief of  altmuslim Shahed Amanullah. Later this month, Dr. Aslan will return as [...]

The blog altmuslim is dedicated to advancing a progressive image of Muslims in the media and throughout the world.

To the Best of Our Knowledge produced a five-part radio series called “East Meets West” in 2007 that relates nicely to what we do here at Inside Islam. The TTBOOK series includes interviews with prominent Muslim voices ranging from scholars to bloggers to hip-hop artists. Below is a summary of the series, along with titles and short descriptions for each of the five segments.

Host of the award-winning podcast Islamophonic and journalist for the Guardian UK Riazat Butt takes a critical and witty look at the Muslim community beginning at home in her native Great Britain.