Mazeni Alwi

Doctors and healthcare workers are cognizant of the fact that occupational death is a risk but needless deaths in frightening numbers is something else.

The French are known as a white European people with fierce cultural and intellectual pride, take glamour and chicness as life's essentials, and have a studied sophistication in tastes.

Muslims are getting tired of being held collectively responsible for the action of the extremists few on the fringe.

In an era of ruthlessness and greed, is a new vision possible to lift the world's poor out of poverty and confer on them human dignity?

Martin Lings belonged to that select handful of scholars who had privileged access to the traditional universe. He was able to convey what he had absorbed with insight and eloquence

The human rights rhetoric should not be abused in order to repeal Syariah enactments, as this is an internal matter for Muslims alone to resolve

While it may be convenient to shift blame for all that is wrong with humanity onto religion, it remains the inspiration for much of our laws and civic conventions.

For all the aspirations of ordinary people, they are often driven by the false values that come with the pursuit of material success.

When Janet Jackson's breast was exposed on live television, there were cries of outrage in America. Why the fuss from the most modern society on earth and the beacon of democracy and freedom?

For the Muslim believer, Haj does evoke that similar sense of human fragility and smallness in the face of God's awesome presence - in the way that one feels vulnerable, dependent, and utterly alone.

A Chinese Muslim political exile and his family prepare for a new beginning in Quebec, Canada. Fleeing from persecution back home, they are now at the doorstep of a new and challenging chapter.

A year after his passing and over twenty-five years after his original thesis on Orientalism, Edward Said's call for humane understanding of the 'other' continues to resonate in todays volatile global climate.

If United States is serious about seeking a solution to the present problem on terrorism and to win the hearts and minds of Muslims, the Yusuf Islam and Tariq Ramadan incidents prompt one to question its sincerity.

With the passing of his father just two weeks before Merdeka, the writer reflects on the importance of old fashion values in modern times.

If Iraqis are Arabs and Muslims, and the world could be sympathetic with them, why is it that such a level of popular support has never been shown for the Palestinians?

Eminent Islamic scholars give their blessings for the suicide bombings in Israel, but these acts of desperation only serve to create more obstacles for the Palestinian struggle.

Misgivings about safety always stopped this writer from travelling to Lebanon in the past. But a recent trip to the country, rich in history and beautiful landscapes, changes his perception.