FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, ...

(RNS) — In May of 2022, in the middle of her master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School, Ariella Gayotto Hohl lost her father to cancer. Five thousand miles away from her home in Brazil, she never ...

While attending Harvard Divinity School, Ariella Gayotto Hohl knew her mission would be to contribute to her community and she thought often about how and what those things would be. But the how and ...

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the ...

Ariella Gayotto Hohl and Omid Safi are featured in the documentary “Islam’s Greatest Love Stories.” They discuss some of the stories the film explores, including one on the poet Rumi and the tale of ...