Recently a couple of interesting interviews that widen the image normal media gives of Islam have been published on the net.

Published on Religioscope, an independent website about religions in today's world, was an interview with British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban, tells Asma Hanif that oppression of Muslim women has to do with traditions rather than with Islam and explains why she became a Muslim.
Source: Religioscope - 28/12/07 --> Read the article

Also on Religioscope one can read an interview with Prof. Sayed Farid. As we hear more and more about 'Islamic science' and 'Islamic economics', and over recent decades, calls for an 'Islamization of knowledge' and for attempts to develop Islamic models for approaching modern science have increasingly been heard religioscope wondered what this means and what it involves for current developments across the Muslim world.
Source: Religioscope - 02/01/08 --> Read the article

And on Common Ground News, a website that distributes constructive articles on a broad range of issues affecting Muslim-Western relations to media outlets and individual subscribers, has published the translation of an interview with Marco Schöller, a scholar of Islam, who has recently translated Al Nawawi’s collection of hadiths, recorded sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, from Arabic into German. Explaining the significance of the hadith corpus in Islam, Schöller describes the role of these 1,000-year old sayings today.

Source: Common Ground News - 08/01/08 --> Read the article