Past Winners

2022

For The Spiritual Edge podcast series, On Becoming Muslim, on KALW Public Radio. These sound-rich stories explore the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States.

2022

For Family Battles ICE For The Same Reason They Fled Their Home: They're Muslim, in Huffington Post. Part of a series that focuses on immigration, Islamophobia, and social justice issues, portraying Muslim immigrants fleeing persecution who find themselves fighting anti-Islam bias in the U.S. immigration system

2022

For ‘I Am Omar:’ A quest for the true identity of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim man enslaved in the Carolinas, in Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier. Omar ibn Said was a Muslim scholar in Senegal until he was captured and sold into American slavery. While enslaved, he wrote an invaluable autobiography.

2019

For a yearlong series of BuzzFeed News articles that captures how external pressures are forcing internal debates among U.S. Muslims. These deeply reported stories reveal a community, fearful and defiant, as violence against Muslims rises.

2019

For Muslims in America: A New Generation, a groundbreaking, six-part series broadcast on National Public Radio. These intimate and surprising stories explore the unseen lives of U.S. Muslims at a time when anti-Islamic sentiment surpasses the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

2019

For Who's Afraid of Aymann Ismail?, a video series for Slate Magazine in which Mr. Ismail meets with anti-Muslim activists, state legislators, and his own family to find out if there really is anything to fear about American Muslims.

2017

For The Secret Life of Muslims, a multi-platform series of short non-fiction films that reveals the lives of American Muslims through their careers, talents, and accomplishments.

2017

For a selection of columns in The New York Times from 2010 through 2016 that chronicle American Muslims, emphasizing the normal, productive lives of these citizens, and pushing back against Islamophobia.

2017

For Muslim Heroes, Writers, Artists and an Athlete in America, a series of articles in The New Yorker that reflects the rich and many-sided contributions of Muslims to the American experience.

2022

For They pray together. But for U.S. Muslims, rich diversity often divides rather than unites, in Poughkeepsie Journal. Part of a series on Muslims in the suburbs of New York's Mid-Hudson region, highlighting the resilience of the Muslim American experience and surfacing the challenges of how the community's diversity is also a cause for division.

2022

For Viva Brother Nagi, a Kerning Cultures podcast. Part of a series highlighting Muslim American civil rights voices, like farmworker leader Nagi Daifullah. His work inspired organizers of the Yemeni American Merchants Association. Nagi's story is used in the Association’s educational curriculum.

2022

For The DEI Conundrum: An Untold Failure of the American Left, in The Michigan Daily. Explores the tokenization and optics involved in current day corporate DEI ( “diversity, equity, and inclusion”).

2022

For Allah, Family, Football, in the author’s Syracuse University blog. The term "God, Family, Football" is usually told through the lens of Christianity and Catholicism. This story tells it through the lens of Islam.

2019 with Si Chen

For Worthy of Love, a short documentary video produced by students at the Columbia School of Journalism. This is high caliber reporting on critical and taboo issues in Muslim American communities, which combines great storytelling and excellent production values.

2019 with Zainab Sultan

For Worthy of Love, a short documentary video produced by students at the Columbia School of Journalism. This is high caliber reporting on critical and taboo issues in Muslim American communities, which combines great storytelling and excellent production values.

2017

For Places You’ll Pray, a collection of vibrant images of young American Muslims praying in public spaces outside of a mosque. The series was created by Ms. Ullah as a student at George Washington University. These photos have since been published in Huffington Post, Fusion, Quartz and other outlets including the Goldziher Website.