Amid a sea of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states, West Bengal in eastern India, which is under a Trinamool Congress (TMC) government, is regarded as a bastion of liberal thought and free speech ...

CHICAGO -- Men and women in conservative dress sat quietly before the start of a what promised to be a typical Pakistani Muslim community gathering, until Ifti Nasim - the gay Pakistani Muslim poet, ...

Divided by hatred but united over the written word, Rohingya Muslim poets in Bangladeshi refugee camps joined Buddhist bards in Myanmar by video link as part of a groundbreaking poetry festival in a ...

Aisha Sharif, is a poet and educator who writes about her experiences as a Black Muslim woman in her book of poems, “To Keep From Undressing,” released in 2019. J.M. Banks Editor's Note: This ...