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By MAHMOOD SANGLAY HOW should the Muslim world harness artificial intelligence without surrendering human dignity, ethical responsibility and its Quranic worldview? A global online conference this month gathers leading policymakers, scholars and specialists to seek practical answers. The IQRA’ 2026 Global Conference, taking place entirely online on...

By MAHMOOD SANGLAY In a borrowed room crowded with relatives and everything they still owned, Haneen Mahmoud received a text message conveying news of an extraordinary achievement: a 98.3% average in her matric exams. The moment held joy, grief and a family’s hope for Gaza. Haneen turned...

By JUNAID S AHMAD CAGE International’s designation of Imran Khan as a “War on Terror prisoner of conscience” poses a difficult test for Muslim leadership: are principles on arbitrary detention and repression applied consistently when Pakistan is implicated? There is often an uncomfortable unevenness in contemporary Muslim...

By MAHMOOD SANGLAY Prof Ebrahim Moosa asks whether humanitarian compassion can become a substitute for justice. He draws on his own experience in apartheid South Africa, Karbala and Islamic political theology to confront power, accountability and responsibility. What does Gaza reveal about the world we have built...

By JUNAID S AHMAD Saudi Arabia’s claim that it intercepted an Ansar Allah drone near Makkah raises a question beyond the disputed facts: where does protection of Islam’s holy places end and the political interests of the Saudi state begin? There are few political tricks more effective...

By JUNAID S AHMAD Saudi Arabia’s reported turn to Israeli intelligence against Ansar Allah exposes a deeper contradiction: a kingdom with immense wealth and advanced weaponry remains strategically dependent on the US-led security architecture it inhabits. Sometimes an entire political order confesses itself in a single telephone...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY On May 27, Al Jazeera won the News and Documentary Emmy Award for its coverage of Gaza. The recognition was a reminder that independent journalism remains one of the few institutions capable of confronting power with truth. The significance of the award was captured in...

A leading Islamic scholar and a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Moulana Fazl ur Rehman, declared Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a martyr, signalling a major moment in Sunni–Shia geopolitical relations. By SAYED RIDHWAAN MOHAMED In a landmark diplomatic event that has redefined Sunni–Shia geopolitical relations,...

A global coalition of scholars and activists has called for urgent independent medical access and transparency regarding Imran Khan’s reported health deterioration in custody. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S. AHMAD When a former prime minister’s reported loss of eyesight triggers an international appeal, the issue is no longer...

JAVED AKBAR From the intellectual distortions exposed by Edward Said in Orientalism to the moral rot revealed about Jeffrey Epstein, the West’s carefully crafted image of virtue has finally collapsed. In his seminal work Orientalism, Edward Said (1935-2003) dismantled the intellectual framework through which the West distorted Islam...