Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls – and ...

The country has found itself caught between outrage over anti-Muslim actions and its commitment to free speech. Denmark has also wrestled with the same tensions. By Aaron Boxerman and Isabella Kwai At ...

"Mea culpa" or in today's vernacular, "My bad." In each of the past articles I've penned for this column, I have quoted from the Quran. Yet, I have failed to give even a brief introduction to the ...

The issue of the right of Afghan girls and women to education has become a matter of growing international concern since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Aware of the fact that in order to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To the well-informed this staggering statistic should come as no surprise: Fifty-eight percent of Americans have an unfavorable ...