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INTRODUCTION: Navigating faith and tolerance in the Muslim experience

  • Dr Rachel Woodlock & A/Prof. Muhammad Kamal,

Muslims and non-Muslims have spent centuries living side-by-side, often successfully, but religion can also be a force for division.

INTERVIEW: I have hope we can transcend retaliation & make space for all realities, grief & trauma

  • Hana Assafiri OAM ,

Australian activist and entrepreneur, Hana Assafiri OAM, speaks of finding common ground amid the Israel-Gaza conflict and patriarchal power structures.

Quality journalism is the only saviour for news outlets in Indonesia

  • Endy Bayuni,

Indonesia’s news industry is already struggling to stay afloat in the digital landscape where news outlets no longer control the flow of information the way

In a sweltering Kuala Lumpur cell, media freedom became personal

  • Kean Wong,

Journalist Kean Wong reflects on media freedom in the context of his arrest over a book he had edited on Malaysia’s politics.

The contemporary shifting landscape of LGBTQ+ Muslim expression in Indonesia

  • Amar Alfikar & Dr Diego Garcia Rodriguez,

Amid the influence of conservative Indonesian Islam, a queer-inclusive Muslim counter-public is drafting an alternative approach.

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