Religion

Since several hundred thousand Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sought asylum in Bangladesh over three and a half years ago, joining a few hundred thousand who arrived earlier, there are no…

Many are familiar with hate speech as a form of hate propaganda. However, in an interview with GJIA, Professor Cherian George expounds how hate propaganda also manifests as…

Joseph R. Biden frequently references his Irish roots. Now, as the 46th President of the United States, he inherits an historic transnational relationship with Ireland that is far more than…

Islamic Finance has mainly replicated conventional finance methods inefficiently. It has thrived during periods of high oil prices, which allowed recycled petrodollars to implicitly subsidize its inefficient modes. As petrodollar…

Gay rights in the West have been publicly debated since at least the late 1970s. In much of the rest of the world, however, same-sex relations, and specifically male-to-male intercourse,…

In February 2019, Pope Francis became the first pope to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Like John-Paul II before him, he has also visited Egypt, and he went…

In 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage through a national referendum vote. The decision to introduce equal marriage received a great deal…

Gulmira last heard from her mother via text message on October 19, 2017: “Hello, daughter. Don’t worry about me. I’m going to camp. Don’t write to me.” Shortly thereafter, the…

The New Year rang in little cheer for transgender women in Malaysia. On January 1, a trans woman was killed in Klang, a Kuala Lumpur suburb, the third such…

A country hostile toward women, Pakistan faced a reckoning on March 8 when thousands took to the streets to commemorate International Women’s Day—a demonstration of how Pakistani women grow stronger…