Islam in Media Roundup | 6 January – 12 January
…into a comedy club? It’s no joke. These comedians are talking openly about their Islamic faith in stand-up routines that mine previously untapped material while shattering stereotypes about an often…
Islam in Media Roundup | 2 March – 8 March 2020
…Bloomberg Defends NYPD’s Spying of Muslims After 9/11 NPR Muslim American advocates and civil rights organizations are condemning comments presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg made defending the practice of surveilling Muslims…
October 17 – 23
Muslim Education Center in Morton Grove opens doors to community Chicago Tribune The Muslim Education Center in Morton Grove participated in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago which allowed…
October 16-22
…maintain communal harmony. Read More Beauty vs. Bombs: Could Muslim Fashion Unify the World? The Daily Telescope In the heat of debate over Islamic dress, Sarah Ansari aims to use…
May 21-27- Islam in Media Roundup
…old Pakistani mosque belonging to the marginalized Ahmadi community, officials and the community report. Read More Muslim Inmates Sue Alaska Corrections Officials Over Policy AP News Muslim inmates are suing…
Islam in Media Roundup | 5-11 August 2019
…complex on Eid al-Adha on Sunday, in protest of a possible police decision to allow Jews commemorating Tisha B’Av access to the holy site on the same day. Read More…
Noha Mellor, Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da’wa, Discourse, and Political Communication (New Texts Out Now)
…Islamic communities, thereby stressing a de-territorialized identity. Some of the harshest misconducts committed by the MB, according to Egyptian mainstream media, were related to compromising this territorial nationalism, e.g., the…
Anthony Bourdain in the Middle East/Muslim Contexts
[Originally published on June 11 2018; updated on June 15 2019] Anthony Bourdain was a a gracious and insightful observer of people everywhere. As a digital scholarship initiative focusing on…
27 May – 2 June Islam in Media Roundup
Who are the Muslim community patrols protecting US mosques? BBC News Days after the deadly attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, a private patrol service was launched in…
10 December – 16 December Islam in Media Roundup
…end Islamophobia, a scholar and activist of interfaith studies calls on the Muslim community to increase communications with non-Muslims rather than remain quiet. Read More ‘From The River To The…