Muftah is a biannual digital magazine that probes key issues at the intersections of religion, culture, and politics.
Founded in 2010 as a global affairs digest, Muftah has become a home for critical commentary about belief, identity, and power in their many contexts.
We especially value writing that moves beyond old debates between modern optimism and postmodern skepticism, and that explores the possibilities of the metamodern as an emerging framework.
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Editor-in-Chief at Muftah Magazine. Host of the Protean View podcast.
Ahmed is a senior editor at Muftah and PhD student at Princeton University, where he studies the theorization and creation of “Islamic” media across the modern Near East. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and political science.
Marxist Philosopher. Host of the Emancipations Podcast and Study Collective. Books: How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche (2024) & Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family (2021). Current book on Lukács.
Staff Writer at Muftah. Based in Prague, Czech Republic. Lecturer and researcher of social and political theory, political geography, and postcolonial international relations.
Journalist. Former producer for BBC, Al Jazeera English and CBC News.
Co-Editor at Muftah Magazine. UChicago MA in Islamic Studies. Worked as a legal researcher in Egypt and an academic writing instructor at PKU's School of Transnational Law in China.
Muftah is a biannual digital magazine that probes key issues of the metamodern.
Managing Editor of Muftah Magazine. Co-host of the Protean View podcast. Lecturer in Religion and Politics at the University of Otago and Boston Islamic Seminary.
Co-editor at Muftah Magazine, PhD student in American studies at the George Washington University
writer, filmmaker, staff writer at Muftah Magazine
Co-editor at Muftah. MA student in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University