July 3-9

By Maydan Editors  //  

Maydan Editors

The Maydan is an online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The Maydan team is composed of the Center's faculty members and graduate students both within and outside GMU.
These Are The Challenges Asian Muslim Women Face In Political Life

These Are The Challenges Asian Muslim Women Face In Political Life

Buzzfeed

A new report urges political parties to sign up to a code to stop Muslim women being locked out of public life because of patriarchal clan politics.

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'Our criticism of Prevent is based on facts, not myths'

'Our criticism of Prevent is based on facts, not myths'

Al Jazeera

Asim Qureshi responds to Nazir Afzal’s critique of those campaigning against UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent.

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Why Does China Have Women-Only Mosques?

Why Does China Have Women-Only Mosques?

World Religion News

Islam in China has a long tradition of women-only mosques.

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A Prize-Winning French Novel About the Western Obsession With the East

A Prize-Winning French Novel About the Western Obsession With the East

The New York Times

Mathias Énard’s new novel shines a new light on ‘Orientalism’

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Young Muslims Talk About the First Time They Got Wasted

Young Muslims Talk About the First Time They Got Wasted

Vice

In the Wild West, having a beer with your dad is a rite of passage. But for most young Muslims—like me and my friends—this dream is a taboo fantasy.
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Saudi Arabia has 'clear link' to UK extremism, report says

Saudi Arabia has 'clear link' to UK extremism, report says

BBC

Saudi Arabia is the chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, a new report has claimed.
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Hobby Lobby fined $3 million for smuggled Iraqi artifacts

Hobby Lobby fined $3 million for smuggled Iraqi artifacts

The Washington Post

Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of illegally smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts, the company and the Department of Justice said on July 5.

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Fighting ISIS Is More Complicated Than You Think

Fighting ISIS Is More Complicated Than You Think

Vice

We talk to ‘City of Ghosts’ director Matthew Heineman about how to defeat an idea, and whether Trump would like his film.
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Massacre of Muslims: A Town Still In Denial

Massacre of Muslims: A Town Still In Denial

Middle East Eye

The situation in Srebenica is the exact opposite of that in Germany, which has fully acknowledged the Holocaust and apologised for the crimes committed by the Nazis.
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Muslim Slam Poet: ‘If You Need Me To Prove My Humanity, I’m Not The One Who’s Not Human’

Muslim Slam Poet: ‘If You Need Me To Prove My Humanity, I’m Not The One Who’s Not Human’

The Huffington Post

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s powerful poem isn’t about humanizing Muslims.
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Thousands of Jews Make an Annual Pilgrimage to This Muslim Country

Thousands of Jews Make an Annual Pilgrimage to This Muslim Country

National Geographic

Jewish men pray in the historic Ghriba synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island.
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Portrait of 18th-Century Muslim American Proves the US Has Always Been Home to Many Faiths

Portrait of 18th-Century Muslim American Proves the US Has Always Been Home to Many Faiths

Hyperallergic

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is showing an 1822 painting of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim native of Guinea who was forced into slavery in America.
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Terror attacks receive five times more media coverage if perpetrator is Muslim, study finds

Terror attacks receive five times more media coverage if perpetrator is Muslim, study finds

Independent

Muslims carried out just 12.4 per cent of attacks in the US but received 41.4 per cent of news coverage

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Muslim activist Linda Sarsour’s reference to ‘jihad’ draws conservative wrath

Muslim activist Linda Sarsour’s reference to ‘jihad’ draws conservative wrath

The Washington Post

Linda Sarsour, a lead organizer of the Women’s March on Washington and one of the most high-profile Muslim activists in the country, gave an impassioned speech last weekend that at first gained little attention.
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Why Muhammad Ali's Faith Is Being Scrubbed From His Legacy

Why Muhammad Ali's Faith Is Being Scrubbed From His Legacy

Buzzfeed

“The Greatest” was one of America’s most famous Muslims, but you wouldn’t know that from his official social media accounts — and that’s a problem.

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Islamophobes are attacking me because I’m their worst nightmare

Islamophobes are attacking me because I’m their worst nightmare

The Washington Post

Linda Sarsour, a national co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington told the crowds she stood before them as an “unapologetically Muslim-American.”

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Is the Trump administration focusing on Islam and ignoring neo-Nazis?

Is the Trump administration focusing on Islam and ignoring neo-Nazis?

The Orange County Register

Some people who work to convince would-be terrorists to shun violence fear that the Trump administration is focusing its own anti-extremism efforts on Islamist terror groups, ignoring neo Nazis, white supremacists and other groups that also espouse violence.
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Philippines police push for Muslim ID cards as counter-terrorism measure

Philippines police push for Muslim ID cards as counter-terrorism measure

The Guardian

Authorities in Central Luzon call for policy after Muslims blamed for failing to prevent Islamist conflict in the south
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What are they so afraid of? I’m just a young brown Muslim woman speaking my mind

What are they so afraid of? I’m just a young brown Muslim woman speaking my mind

The Guardian

By asserting my identity in a way that challenges my ‘place in the world’, I inadvertently challenge those who feel entitled to their privilege and status

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