1- Introduction Hostility towards Muslim Americans is arguably a foregone conclusion. Ample evidence demonstrates that negative attitudes towards U.S. Muslims are pervasive among the mass public (Kalkan, Layman and Uslaner, 2009; Panagopoulos, 2006; Sides and…
We are happy to present the video recording of the day-long conference Islam in China: New Studies and Persepctives, organized by George Mason University Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies on Thursday, April 4,…
“C’est l’histoire d’une societe qui tombe et qui, au fur et à mesure de sa chute, se répète pour se rassurer : jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien…” “It’s…
On February 7, 2019 the Black Muslim Initiative and the Tessellate Institute launched the findings from a systematic review of published and unpublished literature about Black Muslims in Canada. The project began in the summer…
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). ISBN 9780691168821, 216 pp., $29.95 paperback | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu In his ethnography…
Erik Love. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 272 pages. $28.00 paperback | Reviewed by Hinasahar Muneeruddin What does it mean to “look Muslim” and can it be considered as…
In Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the United States Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s broad travel restrictions targeting the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries. Numerous Muslim Americans and social justice advocates were outraged by this…
As a political scientist with a background in cultural studies, I happened to experience the so-called ‘culture shock’ in a familiar setting for a Muslim – a mosque, yet in different context and conditions. Having been in…
Erik Love, Islamophobia and Racism in America (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 272 pages, paperback $28.00 | Reviewed by Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen Race scholar Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argues that we are living in an age…
Islam, like all religious identities, is both a way of knowing and a mode of practice. Racial identity is also a way of knowing and a mode of practice. In other words, like all identities,…