The image of the voracious reader in prison is a powerful trope of film and literature, from The Shawshank Redemption to the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Based on the idea of redemption through education, it…
Despite being influenced by both global and local conditions, there are noticeable phenomena characterizing the landscape of Muslim media in the Arab region – and especially Egypt – post-Arab Spring. Within the global context, there…
The Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium was held on 30-31 January 2020 at Duke University, bringing together community members, religious leaders, academics, and students and faculty from Duke University and the University of North Carolina Chapel…
On January 17th and 18th 2020, The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) held a symposium on popular culture titled Produce, Consume, Conserve, which brought together academics, practitioners, and conservators to discuss popular culture…
Preoccupation with the realm of speech acts and expression has been a hallmark of successive pieces of UK counter terrorism legislation introduced under the aegis of the War on Terror. This has long been a…
Introduction | by Daniel Nilsson DeHanas and Peter Mandaville Round One Responses | by Sadek Hamid, Zareena Grewal, Shirin Khan, Narzanin Massoumi Round Two Responses | by Sadek Hamid, Zareena Grewal, Shirin Khan, Narzanin Massoumi…
Limited Access to Islamic Books and Conflicting Visions of Redemption in American Prisons
Muslim Media in the Post-Arab Spring: The Curious Case of Egypt
[Conference Report] “Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium” | 30-31 January 2020, Duke University
Produce Consume Conserve: A Podcast Series on Egyptian Popular Culture | Episode 1- Producing for the Public Roundtable
Securitisation, Fundamental British Values and the Neutralisation of Dissent within Muslim Discourses in the UK
Roundtable | Securitization in Transatlantic Perspective
Introduction | by Daniel Nilsson DeHanas and Peter Mandaville Round One Responses | by Sadek Hamid, Zareena Grewal, Shirin Khan, Narzanin Massoumi Round Two Responses | by Sadek Hamid, Zareena Grewal, Shirin Khan, Narzanin Massoumi…
The name Khan is trending. One Khan – Imran Khan – is now the PM of Pakistan, another, Sadiq Khan, is the Mayor of London, and in the US, Khizer Khan, a five star dad,…
Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…
Sapelo Square and Maydan have collaborated to publish “The Great Debate: Critical Race Theory and Muslims,” a series of essays that examine Critical Race Theory through the lens of Black Muslims and Black Muslim communities in…
In recent years, Islamic Studies scholars and scholars who study Muslims have begun to use critical race theory – which was introduced by legal scholars to explain how white supremacy persisted despite the end of…
Prologue During the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad was the center of learning and scholarship in the Islamic world. Scholars from various religious backgrounds and academic disciplines flocked there to be part of a bustling society of…
Among Muslims of African-descent in the United States, there is a rather extensive history of their participation in the Black Freedom Struggle. From resistance to the forced migration and enslavement of African Muslims starting before…
Introduction The institution of Construction Jihad (Jahad-i Sazandigi, hereafter CJ) dates back to the Iranian Revolution. While CJ’s origins were rooted in the rural reconstruction and development policies that were instituted during the reign of…
Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017), 408 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 9780691166780. Reviewed by Arif Erbil. Mona Hassan’s Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History…
When I first wrote The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West in 2015, I had some doubts about whether it would find an audience. Did scholars, journalists, policy makers, and others…
