A tweet from a 23-year-old Saudi Arabian journalist about the Prophet Muhammad reads, "I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you. I will not pray for you," (Tweet reported from AFP). Another tweet reported by...

In 2011, there were few on the outside who could find space for optimism with Pakistan, even some of my Pakistani friends living in the States. "People there just don't want anything to work. What the hell is wrong with us? It's our own damn fault," a Pakistani-American friend tells...

Last summer in Kashmir, a disputed territory contested between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, bullets were shot for stones thrown, leaving over 100 protesters dead. Having just returned from Kashmir this summer, I was made aware of the fatigue and mistrust that permeates the streets of Kashmir today,...

Myself and my brother (from the New York based indie rock band zerobridge), just finished playing our first zerobridge rock and roll concert in Kashmir as part of a program we've independently put to together for cultural exchange and peace in Kashmir, India.

Kashmir a disputed territory...

Brave and bloodied,
Minds worn, clothes torn,
Tired eyed- visionary women and men in Egypt's Tahrir square prayed outside on concrete.
Suddenly, they rose up.
The dictator who colonized their hopes and dreams for 30 years has stepped down.

A people's revolution, a youth, have overpowered...

Setting fire to his helplessness and humiliation, a 26-year-old shop keeper engulfed himself in flames, thereby initiating unprecedented popular rebellion in Tunisia that ended the country's 23 year political oppression under Ben Ali. Weeks later, a 25-year-old unemployed Egyptian, among others, also set himself alight, bringing the world's attention to...

India and the U.S have begun solidifying their "commonality of interests" this week as President Barack Obama heads to the South Asia region. "India and the United States have never mattered more to each other," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week. "As the world's two largest democracies, we...

It started with the murder of one Kashmiri boy in June. Three months later, security forces have now killed over 90 more Kashmiris. Kashmiri civil society continues to march for justice and accountability, despite a violent crackdown by state security forces. Additionally, Kashmiris face the growing threat of the spread...

An open letter to my America and my Islam, my Muslim world.

DEAR AMERICA
Dear America I love you, but you're bringing me down. A billion of me look up to you but you turn the other way, with your attention...

While Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had met with her Pakistani counterpart, Salman Basir, for talks last month, Kashmiris have been mourning the widespread murders of Kashmiri youth by state security forces, some 15 people this past month. The murders have sparked the largest civil protests by Kashmiris in the...

I write to you, my Muslim community, as a Muslim, as an American, and more importantly, as a member of a collective humanity. I know that we as Muslims are frustrated at our community. I see the world and our Muslim community plagued by murder, poverty, war, and political turmoil,...

I write to you, my Muslim community, as a Muslim, as an American, and most importantly, as a member of a collective humanity.

I write to you, America, as a Muslim-American who is frustrated at seeing both sides of my identity spreading myths about each other. In part one of this two part article, I address America from a Muslim perspective. In part two, which will follow in the coming weeks, I shall...

Humility
Humility. In the Golden City of Jerusalem, humility drifted in my ears and made my soul shiver at sunset, as I looked out at the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, hearing the most beautiful azaan (Arab-Muslim call to prayer). I submitted body and mind at the...

Our stake in Kashmir is a very personal one. It's the place of our ancestry and everyone outside our immediate family resides there. For the last twenty years, my brother and I have witnessed first-hand the devastating toll taken by violence on our loved ones, the people, the entire culture...

Hey world,

Mo here, current Fulbright Scholar and drummer of Kashmiri/NYC band Zerobridge, reporting to you from Tangier, Morocco. Today's question: "Do Arabs rock?" Yes, they do. I witnessed a crazy show by the Moroccan Metal band called WANTED in the Cinema Rif. The place was packed. Young Arabs...

During his presidential campaign, President Obama publicly stated that peace in South Asia and Afghanistan would need to incorporate some kind of resolution on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.

The then presidential candidate rightly stated, "We should probably try to facilitate a better understanding between Pakistan and India...

Earlier this week, Hamas indiscriminately launched a series of rocket attacks into Israel, tragically killing an Israeli. (Another second Israeli was killed in rocket fire on Monday.) On Saturday, the Israeli air force dropped over a 100 tons of bombs onto Gaza Strip in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, OPT, often...

I recall being in Kashmir during the winter of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant's attack on the Indian parliament in 2001. Fighter jets ripped through the crisp sky towards the Line of Control, LoC, separating Indian and Pakistan. Soldiers on the streets gripped their guns, eyes red with fear. Kashmiris waited, helplessly....

Despite Kashmiri separatists' calls for a boycott of the Indian run state elections in Jammu and Kashmir this month, preliminary data from the first stage of the seven stage election process shows Kashmiris in many districts have come out to vote in high numbers. The Election Commission said 64 %...